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The graduands will enjoy a special day to remember and join Chester’s numerous alumni when they graduate across nine ceremonies at Chester Cathedral from Wednesday, October 31 to Friday, November 2. Over the three dates, the graduates will be congratulated by the University’s Chancellor, His Grace the Duke of Westminster KG CB CVO OBE TD CD DL at two of the ceremonies, and Professor Tim Wheeler, the University’s Vice-Chancellor at the remaining ceremonies. They will be joined by a group of eminent individuals who will each be awarded an Honorary Degree for outstanding achievements in their chosen field. Professor Wheeler said: “We wish all who graduate in this historic cathedral good luck in the future as they leave to follow their careers. Each graduation ceremony symbolises their hard work and dedication and all that they have achieved. “It is always a real pleasure to see our latest graduates gather with family and friends to celebrate this moment and we believe it is one of the proudest of their lives.
Born in 25 Nov 1897 and died in 9 Nov 1978 Hildreth, Nebraska William Chester Halbert.
“We are also delighted to welcome nine outstanding individuals who have given so much to the local community and society as a whole. They thoroughly deserve their Honorary Degrees and we are proud to have them join us on these special occasions.” Among the celebrated names on Wednesday, October 31 will be: industrialist and nuclear industry leader Neville Chamberlain CBE; physicist Professor Sir John Enderby CBE FRS and musician Jeffery Lockett MBE DL. Scientist Dr Duncan Shaw MBE; Viscount Michael Ashbrook JP DL and Judge Derek Halbert will receive honorary degrees on Thursday, November 1. Leading Mathematician Professor Christopher Baker; Sir Donald Insall FRIBA and Michael Trevor Barnston MBE JP DL will all receive their honorary awards on Friday, November 2. Wednesday, October 31 Ceremony 1 – 9.30am Neville Chamberlain CBE will receive a Doctor of Science in recognition of his outstanding contribution to business development in Cheshire, the North of England and internationally. He said: “I am flattered and delighted to be offered an Honorary Degree by the University of Chester.
By this act the University is showing once again its willingness to identify with the business community in Cheshire and, for my part, I am proud to have the honour of becoming a new ambassador for the University.” Born in 1939, he studied for a BSc in Physics at Kings College, Durham followed by an MSc by research into X Ray Crystallography. He worked at Springfield’s, a nuclear fuel production installation at Salwick, near Preston and then moved to Capenhurst, which was then a new diffusion plant. In 1986 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of British Nuclear Fuel. Hewas awarded the Melchett Medal from the Institute of Energy in 1989 and was awarded CBE in the 1990 New Year’s honours list. He was 1996 Chairman of the European Nuclear Council; Chair of the British Energy Association of the World Energy Council from 1998 to 2001; Chair of the International Nuclear Energy Academy from 2001 to 2004; Chair of the Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum from 2003 to 2009; Chairman of URENCO Ltd from 2002 till 2005 and Chair of the Organising Committee for the Annual Global Nuclear Energy Summit in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 – in the alternate years the summit visits Europe. He co-founded and remains a committee member of the Supporters of Nuclear Energy.
Contents. Personal life Chester was the son of Albert Tracey and Elizabeth (Stanley) Chester of Connecticut. He was married to Alethea S.
Rudd of New York City from 1869 until her death in 1891. He was then married to Georgiana Waldron Jenks of Buffalo, New York from 1898 until his own death. He was the father of one child, Albert Huntington Chester, Jr.
Accomplishments Chester was a graduate of the with an (1868) and a (1876). Professionally, he was a mining engineer and a professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and metallurgy for. He completed an exploration of the and Iron Ranges for the in 1875, and his observations were published in the Eleventh Annual Report of the in 1882. Published.
The Iron Region of Northern Minnesota' in Annual Report of the Minnesota Geological Survey, No. 11 (1884), 154-167. A Catalogue of Minerals Alphabetically Arranged, With Their Chemical Compositions and Synonyms (New York,1897). A Dictionary of the Names of Minerals, (New York, 1896).
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Honors , a mountain in the of northeastern, was named in his honor.