E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, Gilbert Burford Dies at Age 91
M. Gilbert Burford ’32, E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, died Feb. 7 at age 91.
He devoted virtually his entire career to Wesleyan. After obtaining his doctoral degree from Princeton in 1935, he taught for a year at Cornell University and then joined the Wesleyan faculty, where he …