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Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Issue No. 98 September 2006 ISSN 1467-2790 BCA Spring Meeting 2007 - Canterbury p7-9 News from the Groups p14-19 Ulrich Wolfgang Arndt (1924-2006) p22-23 Books p24-25 Meetings of Interest p27-28 Crystallography News September 2006 Contents From the President . 2 Council Members . 3 BCA From the Editor . 4 Administrative Office, Elaine Fulton, Letters to Ed. 5 Northern Networking Events Ltd. BCA Spring Meeting 2007 - Canterbury . 6-8 1 Tennant Avenue, College Milton South, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 5NA Motherwell Symposium . 8 Scotland, UK Tel: + 44 1355 244966 Fax: + 44 1355 249959 Slovenian - Croatian Meeting . 8 e-mail: [email protected] CCP14 . 9 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS is published quarterly (March, June, September and December) by the XRF Meeting . 10-11 British Crystallographic Association. Text should preferably be sent electronically News from the Groups . 14-19 as MSword documents (any version - .doc, .rtf or .txt files) or else on a PC disk. Diagrams and figures are most welcome, Pre-history of the BCA . 20-21 but please send them separately from text as .jpg, .gif, .tif, or .bmp files. Items may include technical articles, news Obituary: Ulrich Wolfgang Arndt . 22-23 about people (e.g. awards, honours, retirements etc.), reports on past meetings of interest to crystallographers, notices of Books . 24-25 future meetings, historical reminiscences, letters to the editor, book, hardware or software reviews. IUCr Teaching Commission . 26 Please ensure that items for inclusion in the December 2006 issue are sent to the Editor to arrive before 25th October 2006. Fellowships and Scholarships . 26-27 Bob Gould 33 Charterhall Road Meetings of Interest . 27-28 EDINBURGH EH9 3HS Tel: 0131 667 7230 e-mail: [email protected] The British Crystallographic Association is a Registered Charity (#284718) As required by the DATA PROTECTION ACT, the BCA is notifying members that we store your contact information on a computer database to simplify our administration. These details are not divulged to any others without your permission. You may inspect your entry during the Annual Meeting, or otherwise by application to the BCA Administrative Office. We will be happy to amend entries at any time. This month’s cover: ECM 23 was in Leuven in August; Designed & printed by Wm. Anderson & Sons Ltd. reports on this great meeting will 34 Loanbank Quadrant, Glasgow. Next Spring in appear in the next issue. Tel: 0141 440 2881 Canterbury e-mail: [email protected] P6 Inset is the much loved Uli Arndt. Crystallography News September 2006 1 From the President AS I write this column the presented with a very strong list of candidates and we Summer conference and are very pleased to announce that the Dorothy Hodgkin holiday season is rapidly Lecturer for 2007 will be Professor Judith Howard FRS. approaching. I am sure Judith was chosen because of the outstanding quality that we are all looking of her science and because of her long association with forward to both. I will Dorothy both as a student and colleague. be attending ECM23 in You may also notice a few administrative changes relating Leuven and I know that to the Spring Meeting as it approaches. The BCA website is many of you will be going being upgraded and a specifi c conference link included that to the ACA Meeting in will allow for on-line registration and payment. We hope that Honolulu. Of course by this will make the registration process easier, and I am most the time you read this the grateful to Elaine Fulton, from Northern Networking Events, Autumn will be with us, so I hope that you all had a and Jeremy Karl Cockcroft, the BCA webmaster, and relaxing and enjoyable Summer. their colleagues for making this possible. Talking of conferences, you will be pleased to know that I have recently discovered that another very pleasant the planning for the BCA 25th Anniversary Spring Meeting duty of the BCA President is to organise the Call for to be held at the University of Kent at Canterbury between Nominations for Honorary Members of the BCA. This is 17-19 April, 2007, is well underway. Lindsay Sawyer, our highest membership accolade, and is awarded to a the Chair of the Programme Committee, and his team small and select group of colleagues who have contributed already have a very exciting and wide ranging programme signifi cantly to crystallographic science and to the work of mapped out, details of which are given in this issue of the BCA. In recent years we have elected Paul Barnes, Crystallography News. We are particularly pleased to Chris Gilmore, Mike Glazer, Peter Main and George welcome back the X-ray fl uorescence community and Sheldrick. In the coming year we anticipate electing one the British Association of Crystal Growth this year. I am or two new Honorary Members. Therefore, it gives me also delighted to see that the Young Crystallographers are great pleasure to issue the Call for 2007. Please send running a satellite meeting again in 2007 after the great your nominations, together with a short supporting success of their meetings in 2004 and 2006. case to me at [email protected] by the As Canterbury will be the 25th Anniversary of the BCA the 31st October 2006. general theme will to look forward to the next 25 years Finally, I am most grateful to all those who have contacted of developments in crystallography, in all its aspects. At me since reading my column in the June issue of the meeting we are delighted to be able to welcome the Crystallography News offering support and ideas with extremely eminent mathematician, Professor Sir Roger regard to promoting crystallography in education at Penrose, who will give the Bragg Lecture. The Hodgkin undergraduate and school levels. I will be moving this Lecturer is chosen by the BCA Offi cers from nominations process forward over the Summer and will have more put forward by the BCA Membership, and I am most news in the Autumn. grateful to all those who responded to my e-mail request for nominations earlier in the year. The offi cers were Paul Raithby 2 Crystallography News September 2006 BCA Council 2006-07 COUNCIL MEMBERS Prof. William Clegg (2009) EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS School of Natural Sciences President (2009) (Chemistry), Immediate Past President Prof. Paul R. Raithby University of Newcastle, Prof. Chick Wilson, Department of Chemistry NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Department of Chemistry, University of Bath NE1 7RU University of Glasgow Claverton Down Tel: 0191 222 6649 GLASGOW G12 8QQ BATH BA2 7AY [email protected] Tel: 0141 330 8522 Tel: 01225 383183 [email protected] [email protected] GROUP REPRESENTATIVES Editor Vice President (2007) “Crystallography News” Prof. John L. Finney Biological Structures Dr Robert Gould Department of Physics & Dr Sheila Gover 33 Charterhall Road Astronomy 131 Main Road EDINBURGH EH9 3HS University College Middleton Cheney Tel: 0131 667 7230 London, Gower Street BANBURY, OX17 2PW [email protected] LONDON WC1E 6BT Tel: 01295 711636 Tel: 020 7679 7850 [email protected] Webmaster [email protected] Dr Jeremy Karl Chemical Crystallography Cockcroft Secretary (2007) Dr Georgina Rosair Department of Chemistry Prof. Christine Cardin School of EPS - Chemistry University College London University of Reading Perkin Building LONDON WC1H 0AJ Dept of Chemistry Heriot-Watt University Tel: 020 7679 5802 Whiteknights EDINBURGH EH14 4AS cockcroft@ READING RG6 6AD Tel: 0131 451 8036/4241 img.cryst.bbk.ac.uk Tel: 0118 9318215 [email protected] [email protected] Industrial GROUP CHAIRMEN Treasurer (2008) Dr David Beveridge Biological Structures Dr Sheila Gould Harman Technology - Group 33 Charterhall Road, ILFORD Photo Dr Richard Pauptit EDINBURGH EH9 3HS Town Lane, Mobberley, Protein Structure Lab Tel: 0131 667 7230 KNUTSFORD WA16 7JL AstraZeneca treasurer@ Tel: 01565 650000 Mereside, Alderley Park crystallography.org.uk David.Beveridge@ MACCLESFIELD SK10 4TG ilfordphoto.com Tel: 01625 516135 richard.pauptit@ ORDINARY MEMBERS Physical Crystallography astrazeneca.com Dr Richard Cooper (2009) Dr Matt Tucker Oxford Diffraction Ltd CCLRC Rutherford Chemical 68 Milton Park Appleton Laboratory Crystallography Group ABINGDON OX14 4RX DIDCOT OX11 0QX Dr Simon Parsons Tel: 01235 443630 Tel: 01235 445581 School of Chemistry Richard.cooper@ [email protected] University of Edinburgh oxford-diffraction.co.uk EDINBURGH EH9 3JJ CO-OPTED MEMBERS Tel: 0131 650 5804 Dr Elspeth F. Garman Prof. Garry Taylor [email protected] (2009) Centre for Biomolecular Laboratory of Molecular Sciences Industrial Group Biophysics North Haugh Dr Jeremy Karl Rex Richards Building University of St Andrews Cockcroft University of Oxford ST ANDREWS KY16 9ST Department of Chemistry South Parks Road Tel: 01334 4677301 University College London OXFORD OX1 3QU [email protected] LONDON WC1H 0AJ Tel: 01865 275398 Tel: 020 7679 5802 cockcroft@ [email protected] Dr Simon Coles img.cryst.bbk.ac.uk Department of Chemistry University of Southampton Physical SOUTHAMPTON SO17 1BJ Crystallography Group Tel: 023 8059 6722 Prof. Paolo Radaelli [email protected] Isis Facility Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Full committee details on the BCA website Chilton DIDCOT OX11 0QX www.crystallography.org.uk Tel: 01235 445685p. Acknowledgements: The British Crystallographic Association is grateful to [email protected] Birkbeck College, University of London, who host and manage the server for our website. Crystallography News September 2006 3 From the Editor BCA Corporate Membership AS the President mentions, The BCA values its close ties with commercial this issue seems to fall companies involved with crystallography. between things. Although To enhance these contacts, the BCA offers both the ACA and the ECM Corporate Membership.