University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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Crnesit nberi on HE subject of this sketch was bom near K aufman, Texas. He hved on a farm until twenty years of age, attended the public schools, entered a small college — Trinity University — and received from it the degree of A. B., taking highest honors. He then entered the University of Texas, intending to specialize in biology but devoted the major part of his time to botany and chemistry. During his course at that institution he made Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1903, received the degree of B. Sc. The two following years he was a fellow in botany and chemistry and received the degree of M. Sc. During the year 1905-6 he taught chemistry and physics in the Corsicana high school. As early as 1901 he began taking courses at the University of Chicago during its summer quarter, and he continued this work until he entered the University as a graduate student and fellow in the auttmm of 1906. In the spring of 1907 he was made associate in chemistry and in 1909 received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy magna cum laude, the subject of his thesis being, The Action of Fehling ' s Solution on Galactose. While a graduate student at Chicago he pursued his studies in physical chemistry with Professors McCoy and Stieglitz, and in quantitative analysis and organic chemistry with Professors Stieglitz and Nef. In the spring of 1909 he passed the United States Civil Service examination and was offered and declined a position in the Bureau of Standards. He was also elected to membership in the Sigma Xi fraternity. After receiving his doctor ' s degree he became special research assistant to Professor Nef, the head of the department of chemistry and continued in this position until his call to M. A. C. He was offered the position of instructor in chemistry in case he decided to remain at the University. In addition to his doc- tor ' s thesis, he published, while at Chicago, two scientific papers entitled, The Relation between Configuration and Rotation of the Lactones in the Sugar and Saccharinic Acid Groups, and An Empirical Relation between the Configuration and Rotation of Sugars. In the summer of 1912, Dr. Anderson was called to M. A. C. as assistant pro- fessor of general and physical chemistry and in 1914 he was made associate pro- fessor. During his three years of residence he has received a call to an instructor- ship in organic chemistry at Harvard University, and another call to become head of the scientific division of the Margaret Morrison School of Science at the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Only recently he was approached by the president and dean of the University of Utah with a view to securing him as head of the chemical department of that institution. 11