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This is recorded on the morning of May 23,
1972, in the offices of President Emeritus
Frederick L. Hovde. Robert Eckles of the
Department of History interviewing. This
is recorded for the Purdue University
Archives and to be used by accredited
persons.
Well, sir, the last time we were talking, we
were talking about your Rhodes Scholarship
and your--I think we more or less finished
your life in Europe connected with the
scholarship. And r , ~:J-ieve our next general
subject is graduat~1and degrees an~ your
return to the United States.
In my undergraduate work at Oxford, I studied
for the so-called final honors school of
chemistry. That work consisted of two parts.
The B'- .A. degree followed by the Bachelor of
Science degree which was awarded fo,r.,., ra- further
year' s study and a research paper. A.T. he end of
my second year at Oxford, my tutor T. W. J.
Taylor of Brasenose, was awarded a Rhodes
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Traveling Fellow~sip and spent a year in the l lJ . ·,-:.-: .. , ... ,
U.S.A. Prior to his leaving, he assigned to
do my part two or the research part of the
Bachelor of Science degree to a young physical
chemist of St. John's College, Oxford, by the
name of H. W. Thompson. Harold W. Thompson.
Harold Thompson was a brilliant young man at
the time. He had returne~ Oxford after
completing an advance~~J~ee at one of the
German universitie ~ o~e that, he had
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graduated from xford. Thompson was a protoge
of the world-famous physical chemist at Oxford,