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Curriculum Vitae: Catherine Louise Johnson
Curriculum Vitae: Catherine Louise Johnson Address: Dept. Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Email: [email protected] University of British Columbia Vancouver. Citizenship: USA Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ Email: [email protected] Employment History 2010 – present: University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor of Geophysics 2010 – present: Planetary Science Institute, Tucson. Senior Scientist 2006 – 2010: University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Associate Professor of Geophysics 2003 – 2006: Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Associate Professor of Geophysics 2001 – 2003: Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Assistant Professor of Geophysics 1998 – 2001: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Education & Outreach Program Manager 1995 – 1997: Carnegie Institution of Washington. Postdoctoral Researcher Education 1989 – 1994: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. PhD in Geophysics 1985 – 1989: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. B. Sc. Honors, Geophysics 1987 – 1988: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Junior year abroad Major Areas of Research Contributions: Comparative planetary geophysics: The magnetic fields of Mercury, Mars, Earth and the Moon; lithospheric structure on, and interior evolution of, Venus; lunar and martian seismicity and interior structure. Mission Experience 2012 – 2018: Co-I, InSight Discovery Mission. 2011 – 2018: Co-I, OSIRIS-REx Mission 2015 – 2018: OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) Deputy Instrument Scientist. 2007 – 2016: Participating Scientist, MESSENGER Mission. Vice Chair, Geophysics Group, MESSENGER Science Steering committee (2013-2016). Honors 2014: Bullard Lecturer, Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. 2013: Fellow, American Geophysical Union. 2009: 3-year Canadian NSERC Discovery Accelerator Grant for 2010-2013. 100 total are awarded each year across all NSERC Science and Engineering Disciplines. 2006 – 2007: Peter Wall Early Career Scholar, UBC. -
2019 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER FACTS AND FIGURES 2020 2 The University 4 World ranking 6 Academic pedigree 8 World-class research CONTENTS 10 Students 12 Making a difference 14 Global challenges, Manchester solutions 16 Stellify 18 Graduate careers 20 Staff 22 Faculties and Schools 24 Alumni 26 Innovation 28 Widening participation UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 30 Cultural institutions UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 32 Income 34 Campus investment 36 At a glance 1 THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Our vision is to be recognised globally for the excellence of our people, research, learning and innovation, and for the benefits we bring to society and the environment. Our core goals and strategic themes Research and discovery Teaching and learning Social responsibility Our people, our values Innovation Civic engagement Global influence 2 3 WORLD RANKING The quality of our teaching and the impact of our research are the cornerstones of our success. We have risen from 78th in 2004* to 33rd – our highest ever place – in 2019 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). League table World ranking European ranking UK ranking 33 8 6 ARWU 33 8 6 WORLD EUROPE UK QS 27 8 6 Times Higher Education 55 16 8 *2004 ranking refers to the Victoria University of Manchester prior to the merger with UMIST. 4 5 ACADEMIC PEDIGREE 1906 1908 1915 1922 1922 We attract the highest-calibre researchers and teachers, with 25 Nobel Prize winners among J Thomson Ernest Rutherford William Archibald V Hill Niels Bohr Physics Chemistry Larence Bragg Physiology or Medicine Physics our current and former staff and students. -
William Lawrence Bragg
W ILLIAM L AWRENCE B R A G G The diffraction of X-rays by crystals Nobel Lecture, September 6, 1922* It is with the very greatest pleasure that I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to you for the great honour which you bestowed upon me, when you awarded my father and myself the Nobel Prize for Physics in the year 1915. In other years scientists have come here to express their thanks to you, who have received this great distinction for the work of an illustrious career devoted to research. That you should have given me, at the very out- set of my scientific career, even the most humble place amongst their ranks, is an honour of which I cannot but be very proud. You invited me here two years ago, after the end of the war, but a series of unfortunate circumstances made it impossible for me to accept your invi- tation. I have always profoundly regretted this, and it was therefore with the very greatest satisfaction that I received the invitation of Prof. Arrhenius a few months ago, and arranged for this visit. I am at last able to tell you how deeply grateful I am to you, and to give you my thanks in person. You have already honoured with the Nobel Prize Prof. von Laue, to whom we owe the great discovery which has made possible all progress in a new realm of science, the study of the structure of matter by the diffraction of X-rays. Prof von Laue, in his Nobel Lecture, has described to you how he was led to make his epochal discovery. -
IUPAB NEWS No
INTERNATIONAL UNION for PURE and APPLIED BIOPHYSICS IUPAB NEWS No. 59, December, 2012 Editor: Louise Matheson Email: [email protected] Activities of the INTERNATIONAL UNION for PURE and APPLIED BIOPHYSICS From the Secretary-General: Professor C.G. dos Remedios, Bosch Institute, Anderson Stuart Building F13, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Courier address: Room W103 Anderson Stuart Building (F13), Fisher Road, The University of Sydney, 2006, Australia. Telephone: (+61) 2 9351 3209. Facsimile: (+61) 2 9351 6546 Email: [email protected] IUPAB is registered in France according Loi du 1er Juillet 1901-Art. 5, n° ordre 03/000309, n° dossier 00158190 CONTENTS Editor’s Note page 3 Report from the President, page 4 Professor Gordon C.K. Roberts Report from the Secretary-General, page 6 Professor Cris dos Remedios Biophysical Reviews – Report from page 9 Professor Jean Garnier, Editor-in-Chief EBSA joins IUPAB – Report from page 10 Professor Anthony Watts General News: BSC visits Brazil page 12 Progress of a recipient of an IUPAB Young page 13 Scientist Award Women in Science -- page 14 Professor Frances Separovic Obituaries – page 15 Dame Louise Napier Johnson and Professor Ivano Bertini 2 Editor’s Note The coming year will also see the continuation of serious prep- arations for the 2014 IBC to be held in Brisbane. This promises to be a stimulating and exciting Congress in a spectacular location. The photograph below was taken by the Treasurer, Professor Patrick Cozzone, at the planning meeting held at the Brisbane Convention Centre in September. It shows (L – R) Professors Brett Hambly, Convenor, Gordon Roberts, One of the changes in 2012 has IUPAB President, and Glenn King been the updating of the IUPAB who is Joint Program Chair with website. -
Lawrence Bragg's “Brainwave” Drives Father-Son Collaboration
www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin HISTORICAL NOTE Lawrence Bragg’s “Brainwave” Drives Father-Son Collaboration In 1912, some 17 years after the serendip- and quickly began to learn what he could itous discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm on the subject. Röntgen, a debate raged as to the wave or Until this point in his life, at age 42, particle nature of this radiation phenome- William later recalled, “It had never non. William Henry Bragg, a 50-year-old entered my head that I should do any professor of physics at Leeds University in research work.” His curiosity aroused by England, came down firmly on the side of his reading on radiation, he soon obtained particles, citing the bullet-like nature of the some radium samples and began the rays, and how they were preferentially experiments that were to make him a lead- scattered in the forward direction when ing figure in radiation theory in a few colliding with matter. Max von Laue of years’ time. He quickly developed novel Germany, having produced elegant spot- hypotheses about the nature of radioactiv- diffraction photographs of CuS by aiming ity. The penetrating power of x-rays, and x-rays at crystal samples, used the diffrac- the fact that they are not deflected by a tion behavior as evidence for the wave magnetic field, were accounted for by the argument. Experiments by Charles G. “neutral pair hypothesis,” which stated Barkla that demonstrated the polarization that x-rays consisted of “an electron which of x-rays confirmed the wave theory in the has assumed a cloak of darkness in the minds of many scientists. -
(Owen Willans) Richardson
O. W. (Owen Willans) Richardson: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959 Title: O. W. (Owen Willans) Richardson Papers Dates: 1898-1958 (bulk 1920-1940) Extent: 112 document boxes, 2 oversize boxes (49.04 linear feet), 1 oversize folder (osf), 5 galley folders (gf) Abstract: The papers of Sir O. W. (Owen Willans) Richardson, the Nobel Prize-winning British physicist who pioneered the field of thermionics, contain research materials and drafts of his writings, correspondence, as well as letters and writings from numerous distinguished fellow scientists. Call Number: MS-3522 Language: Primarily English; some works and correspondence written in French, German, or Italian . Note: The Ransom Center gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, which provided funds to support the processing and cataloging of this collection. Access: Open for research Administrative Information Additional The Richardson Papers were microfilmed and are available on 76 Physical Format reels. Each item has a unique identifying number (W-xxxx, L-xxxx, Available: R-xxxx, or M-xxxx) that corresponds to the microfilm. This number was recorded on the file folders housing the papers and can also be found on catalog slips present with each item. Acquisition: Purchase, 1961 (R43, R44) and Gift, 2005 Processed by: Tessa Klink and Joan Sibley, 2014 Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959 MS-3522 2 Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959 MS-3522 Biographical Sketch The English physicist Owen Willans Richardson, who pioneered the field of thermionics, was also known for his work on photoelectricity, spectroscopy, ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, the electron theory, and quantum theory. -
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS British Crystallographic Association
ISSN 1467-2790 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS British Crystallographic Association No.78 September 2001 BCA Spring Meeting 2002 Dorothy Hodgkin - RSC Landmark Fibre Diffraction Crystallography and Antiquities 2001 Walter Hälg Prize Quarterly Book Reviews IInternational CCentre for DDiffraction DData 1941—Sixty Years—2001 Serving the Scientific Community Release 2001 of the Powder Diffraction File™ Featuring ❖ Over 87,500 experimental patterns ❖ 2,500 new experimental patterns added for Release 2001 ❖ Over 49,000 patterns calculated from the ICSD database ❖ 2,821 new calculated patterns added for Release 2001 ❖ Interplanar (d) spacings, relative intensities (Int), and Miller indices ❖ Chemical formula, compound name, mineral name, structural formula, crystal system, physical data, experimental parameters, and references when available ❖ Quality mark for each experimental pattern for estimate of reliability ❖ Entries indexed for subfile searches ❖ Dedication to detail and scientific purpose ❖ Four-tiered editorial process ❖ Highest standards for accuracy and quality Ask about our special Anniversary pricing Visit us at www.icdd.com Phone: 610.325.9814 ❖ Sales: 610.325.9810 ❖ Fax: 610.325.9823 ❖ [email protected] ICDD, the ICDD logo, and PDF are registered trademarks of the JCPDS—International Centre for Diffraction Data. Powder Diffraction File is a trademark of the JCPDS—International Centre for Diffraction Data. AA newnew creativecreative forceforce inin X-rayX-ray DiffractionDiffraction NEW Helijet – helium jet for cryocrystallography • Base temperature <15 K Our products include: Oxford Diffraction • 2 litres per hour helium is a new limited company owned Xcalibur™ automated 4-circle consumption at 15 K in joint venture by Oxford kappa X-ray diffractometer • Uniform temperature distribution Instruments and Kuma Diffraction. -
Lsu-Physics Iq Test 3 Strikes You're
LSU-PHYSICS IQ TEST 3 STRIKES YOU'RE OUT For Physics Block Party on 9 September 2016: This was run where all ~70 people start answering each question, given out one-by-one. Every time a person missed an answer, they made a 'strike'. All was done with the Honor System for answers, plus a fairly liberal statement of what constitutes a correct answer. When the person accumulates three strikes, then they are out of the game. The game continue until only one person was left standing. Actually, there had to be one extra question to decide a tie-break between 2nd and 3rd place. The prizes were: FIRST PLACE: Ravi Rau, selecting an Isaac Newton 'action figure' SECOND PLACE: Juhan Frank, selecting an Albert Einstein action figure THIRD PLACE: Siddhartha Das, winning a Mr. Spock action figure. 1. What is Einstein's equation relating mass and energy? E=mc2 OK, I knew in advance that someone would blurt out the answer loudly, and this did happen. So this was a good question to make sure that the game flowed correctly. 2. What is the short name for the physics paradox depicted on the back of my Physics Department T-shirt? Schroedinger's Cat 3. Give the name of one person new to our Department. This could be staff, student, or professor. There are many answers, for example with the new profs being Tabatha Boyajian, Kristina Launey, Manos Chatzopoulos, and Robert Parks. Many of the people asked 'Can I just use myself?', with the answer being "Sure". 4. What Noble Gas is named after the home planet of Kal-El? Krypton. -
Louise Johnson (1940–2012) Biophysicist Who Helped to Establish the Field of Structural Biology
COMMENT OBITUARY Louise Johnson (1940–2012) Biophysicist who helped to establish the field of structural biology. ouise Johnson transformed our under- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at the Johnson’s many achievements included standing of how complex enzymes and University of Oxford. establishing the structure of a large and other proteins work. By combining her I first encountered Johnson about ten complex enzyme called glycogen phos- Lin-depth knowledge of X-ray crystallogra- years later. I was a first-year undergradu- phorylase. Present in muscle, this enzyme phy with a long-standing interest in bio- ate at Oxford studying biochemistry, and turns inert glycogen into the sugar needed chemistry, she helped to launch structural my tutor sent me to her to learn the basics to power physical activity. Johnson showed biology as a new discipline. how the addition or removal Johnson, who died on of phosphate groups from 25 September, was born the protein regulates its on 26 September 1940 activity. (Phosphorylation in Worcester, UK. She has since turned out to be a attended Wimbledon High key form of regulation in all School for Girls in Lon- sorts of cellular processes.) don and then completed a She subsequently carried degree in physics at Univer- out a set of groundbreak- IMAGES A.-K. PURKISS, WELLCOME sity College London. ing studies on proteins that In 1962, Johnson started have key roles in the regula- a PhD at London’s Royal tion of cell division. Institution — working In all this work, Johnson under David Phillips, a pio- demonstrated that X-ray neer of protein crystallogra- crystallography could reveal phy. -
Smutty Alchemy
University of Calgary PRISM: University of Calgary's Digital Repository Graduate Studies The Vault: Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2021-01-18 Smutty Alchemy Smith, Mallory E. Land Smith, M. E. L. (2021). Smutty Alchemy (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. http://hdl.handle.net/1880/113019 doctoral thesis University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. Downloaded from PRISM: https://prism.ucalgary.ca UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY Smutty Alchemy by Mallory E. Land Smith A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH CALGARY, ALBERTA JANUARY, 2021 © Mallory E. Land Smith 2021 MELS ii Abstract Sina Queyras, in the essay “Lyric Conceptualism: A Manifesto in Progress,” describes the Lyric Conceptualist as a poet capable of recognizing the effects of disparate movements and employing a variety of lyric, conceptual, and language poetry techniques to continue to innovate in poetry without dismissing the work of other schools of poetic thought. Queyras sees the lyric conceptualist as an artistic curator who collects, modifies, selects, synthesizes, and adapts, to create verse that is both conceptual and accessible, using relevant materials and techniques from the past and present. This dissertation responds to Queyras’s idea with a collection of original poems in the lyric conceptualist mode, supported by a critical exegesis of that work. -
Suffrage Science Contents
Suffrage science Contents Introduction Brenda Maddox and Vivienne Parry on sex and success in science 3 Love Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Dr Helen Fisher on love and social cognition 6 Life Professor Liz Robertson and Dr Sohaila Rastan on developmental biology and genetics 10 Structure Professor Dame Louise Johnson and Professor Janet Thornton on structural biology 15 Strife Professors Fiona Watt and Mary Collins on cancer and AIDS 19 Suffrage Heirloom Jewellery Designs to commemorate women in science 23 Suffrage Textiles Ribbons referencing the suffrage movement 33 Index of Featured Women Scientists Pioneering female contributions to Life Science 43 Acknowledgements Contributions and partnerships 47 Tracing Suffrage Heirlooms Follow the provenance of 13 pieces of Suffrage Heirloom Jewellery 48 1 A successful career in science is always demanding of intellect “ hard work and resilience; only more so for most women. ” Professor Dame Sally C Davies From top, left to right: (Row 1) Anne McLaren, Barbara McClintock, Beatrice Hahn, Mina Bissell, Brenda Maddox, Dorothy Hodgkin, (Row 2) Brigid Hogan, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Fiona Watt, Gail Martin, Helen Fisher, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, (Row 3) Hilde Mangold, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Blackburn, Janet Thornton, Carol Greider, Rosalind Franklin, (Row 4) Kathleen Lonsdale, Liz Robertson, Louise Johnson, Mary Lyon, Mary Collins, Vivienne Parry, (Row 5) Uta Frith, Amanda Fisher, Linda Buck, Sara-Jayne Blakemore, Sohaila Rastan, Zena Werb 2 Introduction To commemorate 100 years of International Women’s Day in 2011, Suffrage Science unites the voices of leading female life scientists Brona McVittie talks to Vivienne Parry and Brenda Maddox about sex and success in science Dorothy Hodgkin remains the only British woman to Brenda Maddox is author of The Dark Lady of DNA, have been awarded a Nobel Prize for science. -
Lawrence Bragg's
www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin HISTORICAL NOTE Lawrence Bragg’s “Brainwave” Drives Father-Son Collaboration In 1912, some 17 years after the serendip- and quickly began to learn what he could itous discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm on the subject. Röntgen, a debate raged as to the wave or Until this point in his life, at age 42, particle nature of this radiation phenome- William later recalled, “It had never non. William Henry Bragg, a 50-year-old entered my head that I should do any professor of physics at Leeds University in research work.” His curiosity aroused by England, came down firmly on the side of his reading on radiation, he soon obtained particles, citing the bullet-like nature of the some radium samples and began the rays, and how they were preferentially experiments that were to make him a lead- scattered in the forward direction when ing figure in radiation theory in a few colliding with matter. Max von Laue of years’ time. He quickly developed novel Germany, having produced elegant spot- hypotheses about the nature of radioactiv- diffraction photographs of CuS by aiming ity. The penetrating power of x-rays, and x-rays at crystal samples, used the diffrac- the fact that they are not deflected by a tion behavior as evidence for the wave magnetic field, were accounted for by the argument. Experiments by Charles G. “neutral pair hypothesis,” which stated Barkla that demonstrated the polarization that x-rays consisted of “an electron which of x-rays confirmed the wave theory in the has assumed a cloak of darkness in the minds of many scientists.