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Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association
Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Issue No. 100 March 2007 ISSN 1467-2790 BCA Spring Meeting 2007 - Canterbury p8-17 Patrick Tollin (1938 - 2006) p7 The Z’ > 1 Phenomenon p18-19 History p21-23 Meetings of Interest p32 March 2007 Crystallography News Contents 2 . From the President 3 . Council Members 4 . BCA Letters to the Editor 5 Administrative Office, . Elaine Fulton, From the Editor 6 Northern Networking Events Ltd. 7 1 Tennant Avenue, Puzzle Corner College Milton South, . East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 5NA Scotland, UK Patrick Tollin (1938 - 2006) 8-17 Tel: + 44 1355 244966 Fax: + 44 1355 249959 . e-mail: [email protected] BCA 2007 Spring Meeting 16-17 . CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS is published quarterly (March, June, BCA 2007 Meeting Timetable 18-19 September and December) by the British Crystallographic Association, . and printed by William Anderson and Sons Ltd, Glasgow. Text should The Z’ > 1 Phenomenon 20 preferably be sent electronically as MSword documents (any version - . .doc, .rtf or .txt files) or else on a PC disk. Diagrams and figures are most IUCr Computing Commission 21-23 welcome, but please send them separately from text as .jpg, .gif, .tif, or .bmp files. Items may include technical articles, news about people (e.g. History . 24-27 awards, honours, retirements etc.), reports on past meetings of interest to crystallographers, notices of future meetings, historical reminiscences, Groups .......................................................... 28-31 letters to the editor, book, hardware or software reviews. Please ensure that items for inclusion in the June 2007 issue are sent to the Editor to arrive Meetings . 32 before 25th April 2007. -
The Impact of NMR and MRI
WELLCOME WITNESSES TO TWENTIETH CENTURY MEDICINE _____________________________________________________________________________ MAKING THE HUMAN BODY TRANSPARENT: THE IMPACT OF NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING _________________________________________________ RESEARCH IN GENERAL PRACTICE __________________________________ DRUGS IN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE ______________________ THE MRC COMMON COLD UNIT ____________________________________ WITNESS SEMINAR TRANSCRIPTS EDITED BY: E M TANSEY D A CHRISTIE L A REYNOLDS Volume Two – September 1998 ©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 1998 First published by the Wellcome Trust, 1998 Occasional Publication no. 6, 1998 The Wellcome Trust is a registered charity, no. 210183. ISBN 978 186983 539 1 All volumes are freely available online at www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/modbiomed/wellcome_witnesses/ Please cite as : Tansey E M, Christie D A, Reynolds L A. (eds) (1998) Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol. 2. London: Wellcome Trust. Key Front cover photographs, L to R from the top: Professor Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, speaking (NMR) Professor Robert Steiner, Professor Sir Martin Wood, Professor Sir Rex Richards (NMR) Dr Alan Broadhurst, Dr David Healy (Psy) Dr James Lovelock, Mrs Betty Porterfield (CCU) Professor Alec Jenner (Psy) Professor David Hannay (GPs) Dr Donna Chaproniere (CCU) Professor Merton Sandler (Psy) Professor George Radda (NMR) Mr Keith (Tom) Thompson (CCU) Back cover photographs, L to R, from the top: Professor Hannah Steinberg, Professor -
Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association
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. -
1- Report of Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry for the Year Ended 31
-1- REPORT OF DR. LEE’S PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st July 2003 Over the past year, several members of the Department were honoured in different ways, and we extend our warm congratulations to them all. We are delighted with the election of Professor John Brown to Fellowship of the Royal Society. Professor David Clary was elected to Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as being elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition, he was elected to the Council of the Royal Society, and was awarded the Polanyi Medal of the Gas Kinetics Discussion Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Richard Compton was nominated visiting Professor at the University of Săo Paulo in Brazil over the last summer. Professor Jacob Klein was awarded the Prize Lecture of the Colloid and Interface Division of the Japanese Chemical Society, while Professor Paul Madden was awarded the Statistical Mechanics and Simulation Industrial Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry sponsored by Unilever. Professor Richard Wayne was honoured by being chosen as the Hauptvortrag speaker at the 10th Fachbereichstag at the University of Wuppertal. Of our junior members, we note with pleasure that Jay Wadhawan, a 3rd year D.Phil. in Richard Compton’s group, was awarded a two-year Study Abroad Studentship by the Leverhulme Trust, while Susan Perkin, working in Jacob Klein’s group, was elected to a Jowett Senior Scholarship at Balliol. We were sorry to mark the death in September 2002 of Dr. -
Postmaster & the Merton Record 2020
Postmaster & The Merton Record 2020 Merton College Oxford OX1 4JD Telephone +44 (0)1865 276310 Contents www.merton.ox.ac.uk College News From the Warden ..................................................................................4 Edited by Emily Bruce, Philippa Logan, Milos Martinov, JCR News .................................................................................................8 Professor Irene Tracey (1985) MCR News .............................................................................................10 Front cover image Merton Sport .........................................................................................12 Wick Willett and Emma Ball (both 2017) in Fellows' Women’s Rowing, Men’s Rowing, Football, Squash, Hockey, Rugby, Garden, Michaelmas 2019. Photograph by John Cairns. Sports Overview, Blues & Haigh Ties Additional images (unless credited) Clubs & Societies ................................................................................24 4: © Ian Wallman History Society, Roger Bacon Society, Neave Society, Christian 13: Maria Salaru (St Antony’s, 2011) Union, Bodley Club, Mathematics Society, Quiz Society, Art Society, 22: Elina Cotterill Music Society, Poetry Society, Halsbury Society, 1980 Society, 24, 60, 128, 236: © John Cairns Tinbergen Society, Chalcenterics 40: Jessica Voicu (St Anne's, 2015) 44: © William Campbell-Gibson Interdisciplinary Groups ...................................................................40 58, 117, 118, 120, 130: Huw James Ockham Lectures, History of the Book -
Historical Group
Historical Group NEWSLETTER and SUMMARY OF PAPERS No. 75 Winter 2019 Registered Charity No. 207890 COMMITTEE Chairman: Dr Peter J T Morris ! Dr Christopher J Cooksey (Watford, 5 Helford Way, Upminster, Essex RM14 1RJ ! Hertfordshire) Secretary: Prof. John W Nicholson !Prof Alan T Dronsfield (Swanwick, 52 Buckingham Road, Hampton, Middlesex, ! Dr John A Hudson (Cockermouth) TW12 3JG [e-mail: [email protected]] !Prof Frank James (Royal Institution) Membership Prof Bill P Griffith !Dr Michael Jewess (Harwell, Oxon) Secretary: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, ! Dr Fred Parrett (Bromley, London) London, SW7 2AZ [e-mail: [email protected]] ! Prof Henry Rzepa (Imperial College) Treasurer: Prof Richard Buscall Exeter, Devon [e-mail: [email protected]] Newsletter Dr Anna Simmons Editor Epsom Lodge, La Grande Route de St Jean, St John, Jersey, JE3 4FL [e-mail: [email protected]] Newsletter Dr Gerry P Moss Production: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS [e-mail: [email protected]] https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbcs/rschg/ http://www.rsc.org/historical/ 1 Contents From the Editor (Anna Simmons) 2 Message from the Incoming Chair (Peter Morris) 3 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HISTORICAL GROUP MEETINGS 3 Celebrating the Centenary of IUPAC 3 Joint Meeting of the Institute of Physics History of Physics Group and the RSC Historical Group, Centenary of Transmutation 4 RSCHG NEWS 5 The Historical Group AGM (John Hudson)! ! 5! OBITUARIES 5 The Nearness of the Past: Remembering -
Postmaster & the Merton Record
Postmaster & The Merton Record 2020 Merton College Oxford OX1 4JD Telephone +44 (0)1865 276310 Contents www.merton.ox.ac.uk College News From the Warden ..................................................................................4 Edited by Emily Bruce, Philippa Logan, Milos Martinov, JCR News .................................................................................................8 Professor Irene Tracey (1985) MCR News .............................................................................................10 Front cover image Merton Sport .........................................................................................12 Wick Willett and Emma Ball (both 2017) in Fellows' Women’s Rowing, Men’s Rowing, Football, Squash, Hockey, Rugby, Garden, Michaelmas 2019. Photograph by John Cairns. Sports Overview, Blues & Haigh Ties Additional images (unless credited) Clubs & Societies ................................................................................24 4: © Ian Wallman History Society, Roger Bacon Society, Neave Society, Christian 13: Maria Salaru (St Antony’s, 2011) Union, Bodley Club, Mathematics Society, Quiz Society, Art Society, 22: Elina Cotterill Music Society, Poetry Society, Halsbury Society, 1980 Society, 24, 60, 128, 236: © John Cairns Tinbergen Society, Chalcenterics 40: Jessica Voicu (St Anne's, 2015) 44: © William Campbell-Gibson Interdisciplinary Groups ...................................................................40 58, 117, 118, 120, 130: Huw James Ockham Lectures, History of the Book -
Programme and Abstracts Spin Chemistry Meeting 2011
SPIN CHEMISTRY MEETING 2011 th 12 International Symposium on Spin and Magnetic Field Effects in Chemistry and Related Phenomena PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS 15-20 May, 2011 Hotel De Witte Raaf, Noordwijk, The Netherlands SCM 2011 Programme and Abstracts Committee Welcome to the SCM 2011 On behalf of the International Spin Chemistry Committee I would like to welcome you to Noordwijk for the 12th International Symposium on Spin and Magnetic Field Effects in Chemistry and Related Phenomena. This meeting continues a series of symposia, which started in Tomakomai in Japan in 1991, and it is very satisfying to see that after 20 years Spin Chemistry remains a vibrant area of research as evidenced by the more than 100 participants at the SCM 2011. As the field has matured, we are now seeing a broader range of research areas in the programme with topics as diverse as quantum computing, spintronics, hyperpolarization and biological low-field effects. It is also encouraging to see a large number of students, postdocs and young faculty at the meeting. The SCM 2011 is located at one of the most beautiful places in the Netherlands – and hold during one of the best periods of the year: Within the flower fields and during the flowering season, close to the forest, the duins, the beach and the ocean. The hotel and the bungalows certainly provide a decend and relaxed atmosphere allowing for exciting scientific discussions. In addition, our conference site is close to Leiden, where the concepts of the spin (1925 by Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck) and the radical- pair mechanism (1969 by Kaptein and Oosterhof) have been proposed. -
News & Views Layout
© 1999 Nature America Inc. • http://structbio.nature.com obituary David C. Phillips Anthony C.T. North There were two major aspects to the sci- Helen Scouloudi were already at the tribution in myoglobin in order to build entific career of David Phillips. The first Royal Institution and were joined in late a molecular model of the protein. It was was his crystallographic research, most 1955 by David Phillips, David Green, decided to represent the density values notably the role that he played in Jack Dunitz and myself. David Phillips by means of colored clips attached to studies of lysozyme, the first enzyme to began by finishing off his acridene struc- steel rods. Our initial calculations have its three-dimensional structure and ture. Despite initial uncertainty as to showed that we would require about six mechanism determined by X-ray crystal- whether to continue with small mole- miles of steel rods. This estimate was lography. This led to international recog- later lowered when it was realized that nition, with the consequent award of there would be no space for people to many prizes and medals, honorary doc- put their hands into the resulting forest. torates and fellowships. The second was I was deputed to go to Hamley’s toyshop the part that he played in scientific orga- in London, where I bought out their nization both within the UK and inter- entire stock of Meccano clips. Such nationally. improvisation was a characteristic of the David was born in Ellesmere in early days of protein crystallography! Shropshire on the 7th of March, 1924; David Phillips was keen to improve his father was a master tailor who was our methods of data collection and, also a Methodist lay preacher. -
Curiosity-Driven 'Blue Sky' Research
Curiosity-driven ‘Blue Sky’ Research: a threatened vital acvity? Sir John Cadogan Inaugural President of the Learned Society of Wales ‘One somemes finds what one is not looking for.’ Although this is a paper commissioned by the Learned Society of Wales (Appendix 1), the threat addressed spans the enre UK scienfic scene. In Wales, while Educaon is devolved, support of research through the Research Councils is not. This paper addresses funding in the laer category on the opmisc assumpon that the vital QR (Quality-Related) funding from the University Funding Councils via the educaon budget line will be protected. Disaster would otherwise ensue. However, the same arguments apply to both categories of funding. Important comments from 41 Fellows of the Royal Society (Appendix 2) and from Professor John Tucker, General Secretary of the Learned Society of Wales are gratefully acknowledged. The design and producon of this paper are due to the much appreciated work of Georgia Burde and Dr Sarah Morse, execuve officers of The Learned Society of Wales. Thanks too, to the South Wales Instuon of Engineers Educaonal Trust for a contribuon to the cost of producon of this paper. A copy of this paper is available at: hp://bit.ly/lswbluesky List of Images Front Cover (clockwise from top le): ‘Transistor Closeup’ By Rosslav Lisovy [CC BY NC SA 2.0] via Flickr; ‘Airbus A380 at SFO’ By Todd Lapin [CC BY NC 2.0] via Flickr; Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)’ via ArFact; ‘MRI’ By Liz West [CC BY2.0] via Wikipedia Commons; Page 1: ‘Treatment: Photodynamic_Therapy: Argon-Ion -
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The Royal College of Physicians and Oxford Brookes University Medical Sciences Video Archive MSVA 036
© 2011 Oxford Brookes University The Royal College of Physicians and Oxford Brookes University Medical Sciences Video Archive MSVA 036 Sir Rex Richards FRS in interview with Max Blythe Oxford, March 1988 Interview Two MB Sir Rex, in the closing minutes of our last interview, we had you returning in 1955 from America working with Purcell 1 and then Pound, 2 and then moving progressively on to various interests with magnets, electromagnets, and then moving towards the 1960s and changes in interests, and also a meeting with Martin Wood – we’d just mentioned, I think, at the close of the interview – that was going to be quite significant. RR Yes, indeed. Yes. Well, you see, at the end of the… by the late 1950s when high-resolution magnetic resonance had become quite well-established by then, although the equipment was still rather primitive, but my high-resolution permanent magnet instrument was behaving very well, and it was very productive in exploring the use of NMR [nuclear magnetic resonance] to study the structures of organic compounds of modest size. MB This is the magnet made by Mullard? RR Mullard. Yes, that’s the magnet made by Mullard. And from that time onwards, this technique of high-resolution NMR was exploited; commercial equipment was manufactured by one or two major international manufacturers, and it has, of course, become a technique of immense importance in the organic chemical and pharmaceutical industry. It is the method of choice for obtaining the structures of organic compounds. 1 Professor Edward Mills Purcell (1912-1997), Professor of Physics at Harvard University, 1949-77.