Dr. W. Duane Made Ass't Professor

Dr. William Duane, of Philadelphia, has been appointed as Assistant Professor in Harvard University, in the Division of Physics. Dr. Duane received the degree of A. M. from Harvard n 1895, and the degree of Ph.D. from Berlin in 1897; and has spent six years in the Curie Radium Laboratory at Paris. He returned to this country as Research Fellow of the Cancer Commission of Harvard University last fall. Professor Duane will devote the greater part of his time to the physiological action of radioactive substances and to the problems in Physics directly connected with this subject at the Harvard Medical School and at the Huntington Cancer Hospital, but he will also undertake the direction of advanced students in problems on the purely physical side of radioactivity in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory.