AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES Albert H. Low
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HE highest praise that ean be given a busiuess man is that he bas won the esteem of his competitors. Mr. J. W. Root, a prominent assayer and mctallurpical chemist
of Denver, who has had a professional acquaintaiice with Dr. Low for about twenty-five years and for many of these has been a competitor in business, speaks thus of him:
As a competitor in business, I always found him eminently fair and coluteous, and as a in the varioi,s problems oi our profession he has always disolaved the wirit of a true scientist. Thi? spirit he has manifested in mauy ways. but the ful- ,, . . ~ lowing seem to embody the whole field: First. the snirit of investieation as reAected in his various coniributions to scicntific research, through all oi which runs the dominant note of a seeker for the truth. Second, the open mind. So oiten have I and others noted this quality, seeing how little the prejudice and precoiiceivcd notions and conclusions arrived a t after long work and study deter him from casting thcm aside utterly ior a better and more logical answer, either as a result of his own work 01: t h a t of another. Third, the spirit of helpfidness-this the most human of all. Coming to Denver over twenty-five years ago, knowing little of the business end oi our mutual calling, and much more, I am afraid, of the technical side, I h a w always found Mr. Low ready to stop work on his own afTairs, ready to listen to my troubles with kindly interest, and always ready to be generously hclplul with suggestions for their solution.
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Dr. Albert H. Low was born in Chelsea, Mass. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876. After holding the position oi assayer and A. 15. chemist a t the Boyd smelter, Boulder, N~.. ... .~ Colo., for several months, he was assista n t duririr the next year in the chernistrydepartmentatM. 1.T. Hetheiiaceeptedapositioilaschcmist a t the Silver Spring Dye Works at Providence, R. I. Ill liealth caused him to resign this position. After regaining health he went back to JI. I. T. for the remainder of the school year as assistant in the laboratory. He then opened an office as assayer and chemist in Lcadville, Colo., assisting in the erection of the smcltcr at Red Cliff, Cola., and helping to manage the California smelter a t Leadville. Following this he came to Denver, Colo., as assayer and chemist a t the Argo Works of the Boston and Colorado Smclting Company. After four years he became a member of the firm of Von Schulte and Low, Assayers and Chemists, Denver, Colo. During the war he was tcchnical manager of the potash works a t Antioch, Nebr. In 1919 Dr.
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1,ow accepted B position as head of the chemistry department
of the Colorado School OF Mines a t Golden, Colo., where he
remained until September, 1926. This school conferred upon him the houorary degree of doctor of science in 1922. Upon leaving the Colorado School of Mines, Dr. Low took up research work with a carbon company in Denver. He is the author of two books, "Technical Methods of Ore Aualysis" and "Notes 011 Technical Ore Analysis." The first of these is well known and has been used in Elan" technical d a n t s and in schools giving a course in ore anal...__, ysis. He also contributed numerous ~
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analysis. When one thinks oi Dr. Low he thinks of the ore and metallurgical
ores, and practically grew up with the development of the ore
industry of Colorado. He was a lorig time member of Colorado Scientific Society, and is a t present a member of the Teknik Club of Denver, Colo. Ur. Low has always remained yomg and is as straight as an arrow. IIe is the life of a social gathering and with his wit of a high order is always popular with new friends as well as old. With Mrs. Low, a most cultured and highly educated woman. he entertains charmingly in his home. He is very fond of games and amusements and is a genuine goad sport. He has B generous and lovable nature, and I never heard him say a disrespectful word about anybody. L. D. ROBERTS
Doran Heads Prohibition Bureau 1. &I.Doran
has heen appoirited Commissioner of Prohibition. He is particularly well qualified for this post because oi his long goveriiment service and his intimate knowledge of the work of the Bureau of Prohibition. This promotion, the Secretary of the Treasury announced. is in accordance with a sound principlc oi administration to be followed wherever possible as the best means of developing experienced admiuistrators and
offering a real inducement to able mcu to enter the goveruinent service. Dr. Doran entered thc Bureau of Intcrnal Revenue in 1PO7 as a chemist. He became head of the Industrial Alcohol and Chemical Division in 1920, having charge of and completing the work of the concentration of distilled spirits. In 1926 he became head oi the Technical Division of the Prohibition Unit.
