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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 22, 1992                   TAG: 9201220259
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: LEXINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

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JOHN WISE, FORMER W&L PROFESSOR, DIES

John H. Wise, a chemistry professor at Washington and Lee University for 35 years, died Monday in Roanoke. He was 71.

As a young research chemist at Brown University in the 1940s, Wise worked on the Project Manhattan atomic bomb effort. He taught at Brown and at Stanford University before coming to W&L in 1953. He retired in 1988.

During his years in Lexington, Wise did atomic research at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Argonne, Ill., national laboratories. He was co-author of two chemistry manuals.

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