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EARLY in 1945 the University of Cambridge received from the Shell Group of Oil Companies an offer to endow in the University a chair of chemical engineering. This offer was accepted by the University on March 2, 1945. It has now been announced that Mr. Terence Robert Corelli Fox, of King's College, Cambridge, has been elected into the professorship. Mr. Fox, who was born in 1912, was educated at Regent Street Polytechnic Secondary School and entered Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1930 with a scholarship in natural science. He read engineering and obtained a first class in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in 1933. During 1933-37 he was employed in Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., as technical assistant to the chief engineer at Billingham. In 1937 Mr. Fox returned to Cambridge as a demonstrator in the Engineering Laboratory. He was elected a fellow of King's College in 1941 and was made a temporary University lecturer in 1944.
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Chemical Engineering at Cambridge: Prof. T. R. C. Fox. Nature 157, 761 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157761c0
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