University of New Hampshire - Granite Yearbook (Durham, NH)

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The Gran-ite of 1930 Professor Charles James, SC. D. HARLES JAMES, professor of chemistry and head of the Chemical Department of the University of New Hampshire, died, following an operation, at the Deaconess Hospital, Boston, on December 10. His loss will be felt internationally, and the progress of inorganic chemistry will be retarded, for in the field of the rare earths he had no superior and few, if any, equals. He was born April 27, 1880, at Earls Barton near Northampton, England. He studied with Ramsay at University College, and graduated from the Institute of Chemistry in 1904. becoming a Fellow in 1907. He came to the United States in 1906 and was nrst employed as a chemist for the National Refining Co., going the same year as instructor to New Hampshire College. being promoted to full professorrin charge of the department in 1912, and receiving from the University of New Hampshire the honorary degree of doctor of science in 1928. Doctor James was a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, The Chemical Society QI.ondonD, and Alpha Chi Sigma. He was awarded the Ramsay silver medal in 1901 and received the Nichols Medal in 1911. He was the author of over sixty papers published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, chiefly in the field of the 'rare earths. He also contributed to many other scientific chemical journals and wrote the articles on rare earths and metals for the last edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. ,161 I

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Dedication To Professor Charles James Little leads us to realize the greatness of a great man until God takes him from us. We, the Class of 1930, do then respectively dedicate this work as'a slight token of the esteemed entertained for his character and the grati- tude for his services.