He graduated from John Hopkin's University with a master's degree in science in 1906. He left Seattle in July 1910, reaching Shanghai in August. Two months later, he arrived in Chengdu and began teaching mathematics, chemistry and geology at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Education (today Sichuan University).
In his spare time, Knight took pictures of Chengdu, recording the area's scenery, historic and cultural sites, local customs and social events.
He died of typhus.
One of the passengers of the Tamba Maru, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, was Professor Luther Knight, a graduate of Northwestern and Johns Hopkins, until lately In the chair of chemistry at the University of Illinois. He will occupy the chair of chemistry In the University of Chengtu. and will study radio-active, minerals in China to discover, if possible, a cheaper way of producing radium. "It will only be a short time," said Profes sor Knight before sailing, "when the world will be startled to hear of a new use of radium. I am not at liberty to say more than that the news will come from France. I do not feel any doubt that there will be a ready market for all the radium I can produce at a price higher than for the finest diamonds of equal weight."
The Sunday Oregonian Portland, Ore.)
July 10, 1910, Sec. 5
In his spare time, Knight took pictures of Chengdu, recording the area's scenery, historic and cultural sites, local customs and social events.
He died of typhus.
One of the passengers of the Tamba Maru, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, was Professor Luther Knight, a graduate of Northwestern and Johns Hopkins, until lately In the chair of chemistry at the University of Illinois. He will occupy the chair of chemistry In the University of Chengtu. and will study radio-active, minerals in China to discover, if possible, a cheaper way of producing radium. "It will only be a short time," said Profes sor Knight before sailing, "when the world will be startled to hear of a new use of radium. I am not at liberty to say more than that the news will come from France. I do not feel any doubt that there will be a ready market for all the radium I can produce at a price higher than for the finest diamonds of equal weight."
The Sunday Oregonian Portland, Ore.)
July 10, 1910, Sec. 5
He graduated from John Hopkin's University with a master's degree in science in 1906. He left Seattle in July 1910, reaching Shanghai in August. Two months later, he arrived in Chengdu and began teaching mathematics, chemistry and geology at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Education (today Sichuan University).
In his spare time, Knight took pictures of Chengdu, recording the area's scenery, historic and cultural sites, local customs and social events.
He died of typhus.
One of the passengers of the Tamba Maru, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, was Professor Luther Knight, a graduate of Northwestern and Johns Hopkins, until lately In the chair of chemistry at the University of Illinois. He will occupy the chair of chemistry In the University of Chengtu. and will study radio-active, minerals in China to discover, if possible, a cheaper way of producing radium. "It will only be a short time," said Profes sor Knight before sailing, "when the world will be startled to hear of a new use of radium. I am not at liberty to say more than that the news will come from France. I do not feel any doubt that there will be a ready market for all the radium I can produce at a price higher than for the finest diamonds of equal weight."
The Sunday Oregonian Portland, Ore.)
July 10, 1910, Sec. 5
In his spare time, Knight took pictures of Chengdu, recording the area's scenery, historic and cultural sites, local customs and social events.
He died of typhus.
One of the passengers of the Tamba Maru, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, was Professor Luther Knight, a graduate of Northwestern and Johns Hopkins, until lately In the chair of chemistry at the University of Illinois. He will occupy the chair of chemistry In the University of Chengtu. and will study radio-active, minerals in China to discover, if possible, a cheaper way of producing radium. "It will only be a short time," said Profes sor Knight before sailing, "when the world will be startled to hear of a new use of radium. I am not at liberty to say more than that the news will come from France. I do not feel any doubt that there will be a ready market for all the radium I can produce at a price higher than for the finest diamonds of equal weight."
The Sunday Oregonian Portland, Ore.)
July 10, 1910, Sec. 5
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