Arthur Bourns, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian academic administrator
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Place of Birth: Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
About Arthur Bourns
- Arthur Newcombe Bourns, (December 8, 1919 – May 29, 2015) was a professor of chemistry and a university administrator with a long association with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
- He was Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of that institution.
- He was born in Petitcodiac, New Brunswick and was educated at Acadia University and McGill University, graduating in 1944 with a doctorate in Chemistry.In 1947, he joined the Department of Chemistry at McMaster University as an Assistant Professor, after teaching at Acadia University and the University of Saskatchewan.
- He had begun his career as a research chemist in 1944 at the Dominion Rubber Company. Bourns became a full Professor at McMaster in 1953 and served as both a Chairman and a Dean before becoming Vice-President of Science and Engineering in 1967.
- In 1972 he was appointed President of the university, a post he held until 1980.
- He had a distinguished academic career, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1964 and serving as a member of the National Research Council, 1969-1975.
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- Bourns has received five honorary degrees and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.
- He married Marion Blakney and the couple had four children.
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