词条 | Arthur James Turner |
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Education and careerTurner was a scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and of the University of London, where he obtained a first class Bachelor degree, whose first research was done under Sir William Pope.[3] In 1912, he joined the staff of the National Physical Laboratory, London, to pursue research on aircraft and airship materials and was appointed Head of the Fabrics Research Section of the Royal Aircraft Factory.[3] Immediately after World War I, the Manchester College of Technology offered him the newly established chair of textile technology,[4] which he held until 1923. At ICCC, BombayTurner went to India, by the end of 1923, to become director of research for the Indian Central Cotton Committee (ICCC), to train the Indian staff members and to organise a comprehensive research programme at the newly started Technological Laboratory in Bombay[3] (now the Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT)), which was opened by the then Viceroy and Governor-General of India, by His Excellency The Rt. Hon.Rufus Isaacs, the Earl of Reading, P.C; G.C.B; GMSI; GMIE; GCVO; on 3rd, December 1924. Turner worked on several new projects studying Indian cottons, including the American hirsutum cottons that were being tried by the officers of the East India Cotton Association. He streamlined the entire cotton research programmes, co-ordinated the scientists and the Bombay cotton mills, who were the ultimate users of the cotton crop. The best varieties of cotton once recognised, were to be exported to the United Kingdom. The Research papers entitled, "The Foundation of yarn strength", was culminated in many parts, is the best documented series of articles, compiled and edited by him. This work, has been published in The Journal of Textile Institute. He was responsible for many of the technological reports, that flowed from the laboratory[3] and published in the Shirley Institute Memoirs by the Shirley Institute, Didsbury, Manchester. While he was in India, he was ably assisted by R. P. Richardson, the spinning master. After working for six years in India, he was appointed as the head of the Spinning Department at the Shirley Institute, Manchester,[3] and as head of the British Cotton Industries Research Association BCIRA in 1931. He was offered the post of director of research at the Linen Industry Research Association, Lambeg, Lisburn, in Northern Ireland in 1940 and spent his last 16 years of service there, raising its profile to become accepted as the research centre of the whole linen industry and trade.[5] He retired in March 1956, aged 67.[5] Technological LaboratoryThe Laboratory grew in leaps and bounds. After 1966 The Administration was taken over by ICAR, New Delhi, and the name of Laboratory was changed to Cotton Technological Research Laboratory, (CTRL) and further changed to 'The Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology.' (CIRCOT) [6] A 7 storeyed building was built to house a Library and various divisions. A well equipped Seminar hall, was added later in 2003. Textile InstituteTurner was a member of the Textile Institute, Manchester, from 1919 and was awarded the Warner Memorial Medal by the Institute in 1931 in recognition of his contributions to textile science and technology.[7] He was elected as a Fellow of the Textile Institute in 1940 and became President in 1952, a post that he held for two years.[3] He served on numerous Government committees and was honoured with an honorary associateship of the Manchester College of Technology in 1951 and various offices of the Worshipful Company of Weavers.[3] He was appointed CBE in 1950.[8] Turner, died in October 1971 at the age of 82. Service
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References1. ^[https://archive.org/stream/Venk6Copy/Venk6%20-%20Copy#page/n31/mode/2up Directors, Arthur James Turner, C.B.E;' M.A;' DSc; FTI, (January 1924-December 1930) Page.33] {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Arthur James}}2. ^ [https://archive.org/stream/Venk6Copy/Venk6%20-%20Copy#page/n0/mode/1up My Spin Lab,H.R.Laxmivenkatesh(2005)] 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite journal| title =Linen Industry Research Association | journal =Nature| volume =177| issue =4506| pages =460| date =10 March 1956| doi =10.1038/177460b0}} 4. ^{{cite journal |last=Tippett |first=L. H. C. |authorlink= |title=Statistics in Research and Management in the Cotton Industry |journal=The Incorporated Statistician |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=147–159 |jstor= 2986646|doi=10.2307/2986646 |date=November 1954 |publisher=The Incorporated Statistician, Vol. 5, No. 3 }} 5. ^1 {{cite journal| last =| first =| authorlink =| title =Linen Industry Research Association: Report for 1956 | journal =Nature| volume =179| issue =4561| pages =662–662 | date =30 March 1957| url =| doi =10.1038/179662a0}} 6. ^ The Website indicates the myriad activities of the CIRCOT 7. ^{{cite web|title=Past Winners: |work=Warner Memorial Medal |publisher=The Textile Institute |url=http://www.textileinstitute.org/MedalsWarner.asp |accessdate=25 September 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070921015229/http://www.textileinstitute.org/MedalsWarner.asp |archivedate=21 September 2007 |deadurl=no }} 8. ^{{cite journal| last =| first =| authorlink =| title =The King's Birthday Honours| journal =Nature| volume =165| issue =4207| pages =956–957 | date =17 June 1950| url =| doi =10.1038/165956c0}} 8 : British scientists|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|Textile scientists|1889 births|1971 deaths|Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Alumni of the University of London|Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology |
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