Evening star., 1932-07-03
BURGESS FUNERAL
IS SET FOR MONDAY
Director of Bureau of Stand
ards Stricken at Desk by
Cerebral Hem0rrhage.

Funeral services for DR.. George K.
Burgess, director of the Bureau of
Standards, who died suddenly yester-
day morning. will be held at O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon in All Souls Uni
tartan Church, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets. After the services, the body
will be taken to Boston, his former
hcme, for interment.
DR.. Burgess, who was one of the out
standing scientists of the country, was
stricken with cerebral hemorrhage
shortly before IL o'clock, while discuss
ing provisions of the economy bill with
staff officials He died in an ambulance
en- route to Emergency Hospital.
The noted scientist was 81 years old,
He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Suzanne
Babut Burgess: a brother, Philip Bur-
CESS of Columbus. Ohio. and a sister.
Miss Clara A. Burgess of Boston. Mr..
and Mrs. Burgess had no children.
1t was expected that officials of the
Bureau of Standards and members Of
various scientific societies to which he
belonged would act as honorary pail
bearers.
SSatai Attack Was Second.
ernce October %. when he suffered
a slight cerebral hemorrhage DR.. Bur-
CESS had been in poor health. He was
confined three months In hospital and
later went to Florida TO recuperate A
ebert time ago he returned to Wash
ington and resumed his duties. Yes
terday. with members of his staff about
him, he slumped IN his chair. Dr. F.
r Brunot, a member of the Public
Health Service, attached to the bureau,
was called in and pronounced the di-
rector as being in a critical condition.
Secretary Of Commerce Lamont paid
a tribute to DR.. Burgess scientific
achievements when notified of the di-
rector's death.
THE sudden death of DR.. Burgess
came as a distinct shock to his as
sociates and to the officials of the De-
partment of Commerce." Secretary
Lamont said His passing will be a
very definite loss not only to this or
ganization, but to the scientific profess
sion Of the country, with which he has
long been identified.
Led Metallurgical Field.
Entering the service of the Govern
ment'S scientific branch over a quarter
Of century ago, by his ability and ap-
plication DR.. Burgess advanced stead
lily from assistant physicist to director
of the bureau. He was admittedly In
the first ranks of metallurgists of the
country and his work in this field dur
ing the war won him Nation rec
ognition.
Il can think of no more fitting char
acterization of Dr. Burgess than the
recommendation given him by his prede-
cessor, DR.. S. w. Stratton, which ap-
pears on the files of this department,
that he was thoroughly able, efficient,
conscientious and industrious"
DR.. Burgess was born in Newton,
Mass, a suburb of Boston. He was
graduated from the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology and then took
advanced studies at the University of
Paris for several years. Completing this
work, he entered the Bureau of Stand
ards July 8, 1908, only two years after
it had been established He soon ac-
quired an international reputation in
the field Of high-temperature measure
ment and metallurgy, being the first to
develop the method for accurate meas
urement Of the temperature of railroad
rails during the process of hot rolling,
an important factor making for safety
in travelling.
Bureaus Scope Widened.
He was appointed director of the bu-
reau in 1923 by the late President Hard
ing. In the nine years of his admins
tration the bureau has grown in the
value and variety Of its work DR.. Bur-
CESS was interested in every field of SCI
ence in which the bureau could CO.
operate with American industry toward
a solution of scientific and technical
problems.
1t was under his guidance that the
research association plan, by which in
dustrial organizations are enabled to
send experts to the bureau to work on
problems in their particular fields, was
developed. During the last two years
Congress enacted his views on legisla-
ton providing for the Nationall Hy-
draulic Laboratory. Installation Of its
equipment already is in progress.
DR.. Burgess married Suzanne Babut