Lamb Retires as Director of Chem Lab

Arthur Becket Lamb, Director of the University Chemical Laboratories since 1912, will retire from that office on July 1, the University announced last night. He will continue as an active professor of chemistry.

Following Professor Lamb's retirement a board of three Directors will take charge of the laboratories. The board will comprise Louis F. Fiesor, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, E. Bright Wilson, Jr., associate professor of Chemistry, and James J. Lingane, assistant professor of chemistry.

Professor Lamb designed the Mallinckrodt and Converse Chemical Laboratories as well as the Radcliffe lab.

He was a director of the Havemayer lab at N.Y.U. from 1907 to 1912, and after World War I established the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, which led in the establishment of a new industry in this country.