Discrete Item F2821 - [Letter from A.L. Clark to G.Y. Chown, Queen's University]

Born at Worcester, Massachusetts on February 19, 1873, Arthur Lewis Clark was educated at the Worcester Polytechnic and at Clark University (Ph.D. 1905). He came to Canada as a professor of Physics at Queen's University and in 1919 he became Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science before retiring in 1943. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1915 and he was the author of a history of the Science Faculty at Queen's, entitled The First 50 Years. He died at Kingston on September 1, 1956.