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Dr. R. Aschaffenburg at Illinois

A distinguished member of the National Institute for Dairy Research at Reading, England, DR. R. ASCHAFFENBURG has joined the staff at the University of Illinois, where he will conduct seminars and be consultant to investigators and research teams interested in proteins, genetics, and biochemistry.

Dr. Aschaffenburg was born in Germany at the turn of the century. He attended the University of Berlin, then earned his Ph.D. degree at Cologne University in 1931, specializing in colloidal chemistry. When Nazism dominated Germany in 1933, Dr. Aschaffenburg left his native country and became a member of the staff at Edinburgh University in Scotland, where he worked with Professor Traube. Leaving Edinburgh in 1937, he became affiliated with the National Institute for Dairy Research at Shinfield, near Reading, England.

Dr. Aschaffenburg has made many outstanding contributions to Dairy Science. He was the first to show that bovine beta-lactoglobulin is composed of at least two major components.