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Nikolai King Joins Staff at Illinois

N. KING became a member of the Dairy Technology faculty for six months on February 1. Since 1951 he has been the Principal Research Officer at the Dairy Research Section, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization in Australia.

Mr. King has had a long and distinguished career. He has written about 80 research papers on the microstructure of butter, cheese, and milk powder, and a monograph on the fat globule membrane. His unique applications of fluorescence and anoptral microscopy have revealed some of the more minute structures of milk products. He has studied the physio-chemical aspects of homogenization and the structure of butter manufactured by two different continuous methods.

Mr. King is a native of Estonia, having earned the M.Sc. degree from the University of Tartu in 1926. For 18 years he held prominent research positions in Estonia, including Professor of Biochemistry at the Technical University of Tallinn. In 1944 he left his native country and became Research Chemist at the Dairy Engineering Station in Weihenstephan, Germany.