Background
Purves, Clifford Burrough was born on February 6, 1902 in Cupar-Fife, Scotland. Son of Alexander Murray and Elizabeth (Burrough) Purves.
Purves, Clifford Burrough was born on February 6, 1902 in Cupar-Fife, Scotland. Son of Alexander Murray and Elizabeth (Burrough) Purves.
Educated Bell-Baxter School, Cupar-Fife, 1906-1919. Bachelor of Science, Saint Andrews University, 1923, Doctor of Philosophy, 1929. Honorary Doctor of Science, Laurence College, Wisconsin.
Research associate carbohydrate chemistry, department physiology Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1929-1931. Came to United States as Commonwealth Fund fellow attached to Polarimetric Section, United States Bureau Standards, 1926-1929. Research associate carbohydrate chemical National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1931-1936.
Associate professor cellulose chemistry Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1936-1943.
East. B. Eddy professor industrial and cellulose chemistry McGill University, since 1943, also head wood chemistry division Pulp and Paper Research Institute Canada.
Member American Chemical Society, T.A.P.P.I., Chemical Society (London), Canada Pulp and Paper Association, Chem Institute Canada (president 1956-1957), Sigma Xi.
Married Doris Elizabeth Ferry, September 29, 1934. Children: Elizabeth Burrough, John Montague, James Grant, Anne Alexandra, Alan, Patricia.