RESEARCH WORKER RETURNS TO MARRY

Chronicle (Levin), 23 September 1946, Page 5

RESEARCH WORKER RETURNS TO MARRY

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B.'jj Telegraph-r

f. " AUEIvLAND," Sgpk 22. t , i (Thjs brilliatit-- yqung_ New . fZealand bnedietil reseitreli worker, Dr. Owen E. Thomas, who was awanied a Beit Menioiial Feliowslup lasL y ear • for his .researeh work 011 goitre, .arrived at Auckland 011 tlie Samleven. Dr. Thomas, formerly of Napier, was tlie third New Zeaiander witliin 28 years to be awanied the fellowsliip. lle was, until lie left for Oxford toward tlie end of last y ear, assistant Jeetnrer 111 anatomy at the University of Otago. iShortly after his arrival in Britain Dr. Tliomas was sent- to Europe to in vestigate inedieal p'rogi-ess there. IIo niet leading seientists of the Gontinent including Dr. Otto : Wai-burg, Gernian Nobel Prize win'ner for Jiis researeh in eancer. " Tjiew-bjuos.t outstanding thing I iearne.d wlille travelling around Europe, u-Ksjfll'at Hitler did not niobilise German s'cientists. British seientists were mobilised i'or war work and so were Ameriean seientists," Dr. Thomas said. In Berlin the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Caneer Researeh had been totally wreeked during the war. It was now being rebuilt under Russian sponsorship and Dr. Warburg was it3 head. Dr. Thomas, who has come back 011 six months ' furlough to marry, said that he would study the ehemistry of living tissues when he returned to Oxford.