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... Turner Alfrey, Jr., was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on May 7, 1918. He was the first of three children born to Cleo Ellen and Turner Alfrey.
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... He was a member of a number of scientific and professional societies, which induded the American Chemical Society, the Society of Rheology, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Society of Plastics Engineers, the Society of Chemical Industry, and Sigma Xi, and he was a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Throughout his career Turner Alfrey, Jr., was author or coauthor of about 100 technical publications and was inventor or coinventor of 24 U.S.
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... To Turner Alfrey, science was more than a job it was his life, and perhaps his greatest pleasure was in exposing others to this wonderful world. His laboratory technique was as unique as his approach to science, and he often fashioned his apparatuses from the simplest of equipment.


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