Arthur James Turner

Arthur James Turner,[1] CBE, FTI (1889 – October 1971) was a British scientist who worked in the field of textile technology.

[2] Turner was a scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and of the University of London, where he obtained a first class bachelor's degree, whose first research was done under Sir William Pope.

Turner went to India, by the end of 1923, to become director of research for the Indian Central Cotton Committee (ICCC), to train the Indian staff members and to organise a comprehensive research programme at the newly started Technological Laboratory in Bombay[3] (now the Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT)), which was opened by the then Viceroy and Governor-General of India, by Rufus Isaacs, the Earl of Reading, P.C; G.C.B; GMSI; GMIE; GCVO; on 3rd, December 1924.

The Research papers entitled, "The Foundation of yarn strength", was culminated in many parts, is the best documented series of articles, compiled and edited by him.

[3] He served on numerous Government committees and was honoured with an honorary associateship of the Manchester College of Technology in 1951 and various offices of the Worshipful Company of Weavers.