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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS British Crystallography Association ISSN 1467-2790 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS British Crystallography Association No.76 March 2001 BCA Spring Meeting 8-12 People in The News 15-16 Obituary - Arnold Beevers 17-18 Making Maps of Magnetism 20 The Weirdest Known Structure of any Element 23 Quarterly Controlled Release of Drugs 24 Contents March 2001 From the President...............................................................................2 B C Council Members..................................................................................3 A From the Editor ....................................................................................4 BCA Annual General Meeting 2001 ....................................................4 BCA Administrative Office, Northern Networking Ltd, Bellway House, Candidates for BCA Offices .................................................................5 813 South Street, Glasgow G14 0BX, Annual Report to Council (2000).........................................................6 Scotland, UK Tel: + 44 141 954 4441 Fax: + 44 141 954 2656 BCA Groups (AGM details)...................................................................7 e-mail: [email protected] BCA Spring Meeting.............................................................................8 – 12 NEXT ISSUE OF News Review.........................................................................................13 – 14 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS People in the News ..............................................................................15 – 16 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS is published quarterly (March, June, Obituary - Arnold Beevers .................................................................17 – 18 September and December) by the British Crystallographic Association. MSword97 documents Mechanical Stresses at ILL....................................................................19 (or earlier versions) or ASCII text files may be sent on a PC disk or Making Maps of Magnetism ...............................................................20 electronically, (only small files < 500K please, image formats JPEG, GIF). Items may include news Bursary Reports ....................................................................................21 – 22 about people (e.g. awards, honours, retirements etc.), reports The Weirdest Known Structure of Any Element ................................23 on past meetings of interest to crystallographers, notices of future meetings, historical reminiscences, Controlled Release of Drugs................................................................24 letters to the editor, book, hardware or software reviews, Beamtime at Studsvik ..........................................................................25 small ads, and advertisements for job vacancies in crystallography. CCG Autumn Meeting Report .............................................................25 - 26 Please ensure that items for inclusion in the June 2001 issue are sent to the Editor to arrive before BCA Industrial Group Meeting Report................................................27 26th April 2001. Book Reviews........................................................................................ 28 – 29 JO JUTSON, Tel: (01691) 671033 2001 ENSA/Walter Hälg Prize ..............................................................29 EDITOR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS, 4, Henlle Gardens, Gobowen, BCA Meetings .......................................................................................29 – 30 Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 3NU. e-mail: [email protected] Summary of Forthcoming Meetings ...................................................30 – 31 The British Crystallographic Association is a Registered Charity (#284718) Corporate Members .............................................................................31 1 From the President March 2001 This newsletter may come as a The new look coincides with Jo President’s Remarks bit of a shock. It represents a Jutson taking over as new departure for the BCA and newsletter editor. We all wish was approved at the last her well in this crucial and Council meeting. Our quite difficult job. Remember – newsletter serves two main the newsletter is only as good purposes: to keep our members as its contributions. I would informed about also like to repeat my thanks to crystallographic activities in the her predecessor, Kate Crennell, UK and elsewhere, but also to for her immense efforts on advertise British crystallography behalf of the BCA. to other scientific communities. We often complain about the Last month I mentioned perception of crystallography Corporate Membership of the in many academic departments BCA as a way to proceed with a as a routine service rather than stronger partnership with an exciting subject in its own equipment manufacturers and right (These people should just software developers in scan ‘Nature’ for a few weeks crystallography. We have now to have these illusions contacted a number of shattered!), and it was felt that companies; we have had a a more professional looking number of enquiries and now Newsletter would help to have several such members enhance our image, as well as with more on the way. giving us more scope for keeping BCA members Finally, I would like to thank informed. Many other Gill Houston and her staff at organisations have taken this Northern Networking (Euan route, and they seem to be Woodward, Claire Cresswell satisfied that it is worthwhile. and Rona Munn) for their We will be printing an extra immense hard work, energy 500 copies for distribution to and efficiency in running the synchrotron sources, other BCA office. A lot of these crystallographic associations changes would have been etc. (Extra copies are very impossible without them. I also cheap to produce.) It is, know that Chris Cardin has however, an experiment for greatly appreciated their help one year; if it ends up being with the Reading Spring non-commercially viable, or Meeting. Reading is shaping up there is a lot of hostility from to be an excellent conference, members towards it, then we and I am looking forward to it. will look again. I hope to see you there. Chris Gilmore March 2001 2 Council Members 2000 - 2001 BCA Council Members GROUP REPRESENTATIVES Editor “Crystallography News” Biological Structures Dr. Josephine Jutson, 2000 - 2001 Dr. A.Hadfield (2002), 4 Henlle Gardens, Department of Biochemistry, Gobowen, Oswestry, University of Bristol SHROPSHIRE SY11 3NU President (2003) BRISTOL BS8 1TD tel: 01691 671 033 Prof. C.J.Gilmore, tel: 0117 928 7436 [email protected] Department of Chemistry, [email protected] University of Glasgow Education Officer GLASGOW G12 8QQ Chemical Crystallography Mrs K.M.Crennell, tel: 0141 330 5947, Dr Harry Powell (2002), ‘Fortran Friends’, [email protected] MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology, P.O.Box 64, Didcot, MRC Centre, OXON OX11 0TH Vice President (2001) Hills Road tel: 01235 834 357 Dr. F.H.Allen, CAMBRIDGE CB2 2QH [email protected] Scientific Director CCDC, tel: 01223 402423 12 Union Road, [email protected] CURRENT CHAIRMEN CAMBRIDGE CB2 1EZ Biological Structures Group tel: 01223 336 425 Industrial Dr. Richard Pauptit, [email protected] Prof. C.S.Frampton (2001), Protein Structure Lab, AstraZeneca, Roche Discovery Welwyn, Mereside, Alderley Park, Secretary (2001) 40 Broadwater Road, Macclesfield SK10 4TG, Dr. H.Muirhead, Welwyn Garden City CHESHIRE UK Department of Biochemistry, HERTFORDSHIRE HL7 3AY tel: +44 (0)1625-516135 University of Bristol, tel: 01707 366272/366031 fax: +44 (0)1625-583074 BRISTOL BS8 1TD fax: 01707 366907 [email protected] tel: 0117 928 9040 [email protected] [email protected] Chemical Crystallography Group Physical Crystallography Professor A.Guy Orpen, Treasurer (2003) Dr C.C.Wilson, School of Chemistry, Mr. D.J.Taylor, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University of Bristol, 35 Birchley Road, ISIS Facility, BRISTOL BS8 1TS Billinge, Chilton, tel: (0117) 928 7648 Wigan, OXON OX11 0QX fax: (0117) 929 0509 LANCS WN5 7QJ tel: 01235 82 1900 ext 5137 [email protected] tel: 01744 893108 or 01235 44 5137 [email protected] [email protected] Industrial Group Dr. S.V.Norval, ORDINARY MEMBERS CO-OPTED MEMBERS ICI Research and technology Dr Margaret J. Adams (2003), Prof. P.Barnes, centre, Lab. of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Crystallography, Wilton, Rex Richards Building Birkbeck College, Malet Street, PO Box 90, South Parks Road, LONDON WC1E 7HX MIDDLESBROUGH TS90 8JE OXFORD OX1 3QU, tel: 0171 631 6817 tel: 01642 432005 tel: 01865 275391 fax: 01925 603 432 (Daresbury) fax: 01642 432 244 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Webmaster Prof. M.M.Woolfson FRS (2002) Physical Crystallography Group Dr Jeremy K. Cockcroft (2003) University of York, Professor J.L. Finney, School of Crystallography, Department of Physics, Heslington, Department of Physics & Birkbeck College, YORK Y01 5DD Astronomy, Malet Street, tel: 01904 432 238 University College London, LONDON WC1E 7HX [email protected] tel: 0171 380 7850 tel: (0)20 7631 6849 fax: 0171 380 7145 [email protected] Ex-Officio Immediate Past President [email protected] Prof. A.M.Glazer (2001) Prof. Paul R. Raithby,(2003) Physics Department, Note: Department of Chemistry, Clarendon Laboratory, Dates in ( ) are when due for re- University of Bath, Parks Road, election or retirement. This list is Claverton Down OXFORD OX1 3PU also on the WWW at URL BATH BA2 7AY tel/fax: 01865 272 290 http://bca.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/BCA tel:
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