News of crystallographers
This page contains news releated to crystallographers, awards, acheivements
etc. It began in October 1995 but is longer updated, more recent news is
available elsewhere.
It also has links to:
- There is a name index to everyone mentioned in this file
- a complete name index to people in all files
- Brief announcement of deaths on other pages last updated Jan 2006.
- There is an index to obituaries in other files. page last updated 28 Nov 2006
- News of others who were not themselves crystallographers but whose work contributed to crystallographic techniques, or who wrote on crystallographic topics.
- a 'time-line' showing British contributions to crystallography
News of crystallographers
This page is no longer ipdated, more recent news is available elsewhere.
May 2002
Congratulations to Judith Howard on her election to the Fellowship of Royal Society announced on 13 May 2002The citation reads as follows:
Professor Judith Ann Kathleen Howard (n�e Duckworth) CBE, Professor of Chemistry, University of Durham. Professor Howard is elected as a General Candidate first because of her pioneering developments in X-ray and neutron crystallography, which have encompassed organic, organometallic and inorganic compounds, and secondly because of her major contribution to the wider chemical and crystallographic community in terms of education and public understanding.
December 2001
Congratulations to Jane Brown on the award of the 2001 IOP Guthrie Prizeand medal and of the 2001 Walter H�lg Prize of the European Neutron Scattering Association31 December 2000
Congratulations to Professor Richard Nelmes, University of Edinburgh and Senior Visiting Fellow at CLRC, on the award of an OBE in the New Year Honours List for services to science.Congratulations to Ken Holmes, who has been awarded the Latsis Prize 2000 by the European Science Foundation.
21 Sept 2000
Congratulations to one of our former BCA Vice Presidents.Professor John R Helliwell is the first recipient of the 'Professor K Banerjee Endowment Lecture Silver Medal' of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), and which was presented to him after his lecture entitled "New Opportunities in Biological and Chemical Crystallography" given at the IACS in Calcutta on 19th September 2000.
3 Nov 1999
As part of the millennium celebrations the Lord Mayor of London was host at a luncheon for 300 distinguished guests on 2 November 1999. The guests were chosen as celebreties in their fields from many areas of UK life. Among the scientists those of interest to crystallographers included- Sir Aaron Klug, President of the Royal Society Nobel prizewinner for Chemistry in 1982
- Professor Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel prizewinner for Chemistry in 1966
- Dr Max Perutz, Nobel prizewinner for Chemistry in 1962
- Professor Sir John Walker, Nobel prizewinner for Chemistry in 1997
27 Aug 98
Prof. Richard Catlow, Woolfson professor of natural philosophy at the RI since 1989 has been appointed director of the RI's Davy Faraday Research laboratory (DFRL) which claims to be the world's oldest continously operated research facility. from the RSC.s August 98 'Chemistry in Britain!
14 Aug 1998
Congratulations to Prof Judith Howard, Durham on the award of an EPSRC Senior Fellowship from 1998 to 2003
New Fellows of the Royal Society for 1998
On 14 May 1998 the Royal Society elected 40 new Fellows and 5 new Foreign members. Those of interest to crystallographers are:- Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Hansrasj Bhadeshia Reader in Physical Metallurgy, Dept Materials Science and Metallurgu, University of Cambridge
for his work on the theory of solid state phase transformations, in particular the prediction and verification of micro-structural development in multi-component steels. He has used the theory to design novel steels, resistant to wear and impact deformation, which in turn has helped in the large scale manufacture of new rail steels. - David Keith Bowen President of Bede Scientific Inc.
Denver, USA
for his contributions in applied physics and instrumentation to nanonscience and metrology. He has instrumented precision techniques for general use.While at Warwick University he was the prime mover in setting up the X-ray topography line at the Daresbury Laboratory, which has now been operating successfully for over a decade.
19 Jan 1998
Congratulations to our IUCr99 logo designer, Malcolm McMahon, on the recent award of two prestigious prizes.
- In May at the EDPDIC-97 conference held in Parma, Italy, he received the 'EPDIC Award 1997' and presented the opening paper of the Conference describing his work. (EPDIC stands for the European Powder DIffraction Conference). The citation for the prize was for 'outstanding scientific contribution in the field of powder diffraction'.
- Prof. Malcolm Cooper, University of Warwick, of the European
Synchrotron Radiation Society, (ESRS), recently sent me this news item.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of synchrotron radiation the ESRS has awarded a prize for outstanding reseach by a young scientist working at a European synchroton. The prize was to be awarded for work done since 1994 by someone under 35.
The winner was Malcolm McMahon, who is based at the Daresbury Laboratory. He has made a significant contribution to the study of materials at high pressures. It is a perfect example of how innovative experimental technique transforms into new science. Together with Professor Richard Nelmes he has cleverly exploited the advantages of image plate detectors and applying the Rietveld refinement technique. They have moved this area of work forward and away from the limitations that were imposed by the energy dispersive technique. Exciting results have bee obtained at both Daresbury and the ESRF on the high pressure structures of InSb, Si, Ge, HgSc, and a host of materials. In an impressive array of publications, they reported new and enexpected structural complexities and settles what were old standing problems. The prize was awarded in November at the International Conference on Highlights in Synchrotron Radiation Research held in Grenoble, France, where Malcolm gave an invited talk on his work.
Malcolm's earlier award of a Royal Society Fellowship was reported in 1996, and his design for the IUCr99 logo was published in 'Crystallography News' June 96, page 9.
7 Jan 1998
Congratulations to our Founder Member,Lesley Dent Glasser, director of SATRO North Scotland at the University of Aberdeen, who wins the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal and Prize for 1998 for her outstanding and prolonged contribution to the public understanding of physics, particularly in Scotland, by the managing of the financial, human and technological resources requires for running SATRO North Scotland and for organising several scientific exhibitions and festivals including SATROSHPERE, Techfest and Science on the Move. Further details in 'Physics World' Jan 1998 page 6230 Jul 97
Congratulations to our Lonsdale lecturer of 1997, Professor Andrew Lang F.R.S., on the award of the Hughes medal for 1997 by the Royal Society2 Jul 97
- Congratulations to Lesley Dent Glasser of Aberdeen, (Director, Science and Technology Regional Organisation for North Scotland ) on the award of an M.B.E. in the Birthday Honours List announced 14 June 1997 for 'Services to Science and Engineering'
11 Nov 96
- Congratulations to Brian Bellamy on winning the Industrial Group Award for 1996 for his innovative work on analysis at A.E.R.E., Harwell.
- 1996
has been a very good year for Malcolm McMahon
who won the IUCr99 logo competition with his design based on C60,
thus anticipating the award of the Nobel Prize for 1996 for the discovery of
C60.
Now we hear the welcome news of his award of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, lastng initially for 5 years, with possible extensions up to a total of 10 years, The fellowship will be held in the Department of Physics of the University of Liverpool, where he has joined Bill Stirling's condensed matter group. The title of the Fellowship is "X-ray diffraction studies of highly-condensed matter". The work will be high-pressure diffraction studies, principally using SRS and, to a lesser extent, ISIS, and also ESRF. The work at SRS will mainly be the development of a high-temperature capability to extend the scope of the high-pressure image-plate system developed by Richard Nelmes' group to in situ high-temperature/high-pressure studies.
28 October 1996
Congratulations to our Treasurer, Steve Maginn, who starts his new job as Manager of the Materials Characterisation Service at the Daresbury Laboratory on 25 November 199630 July 1996
Congratulations to Bob Cernik, Daresbury Laboratory, who has been offered a visiting chair at Birkbeck College. The appointment comes after a long collaboration between him at Daresbury and the Department of Crystallography in the field of phase transitions, dynamic studies of industrial processes and structure anaysis of polycrystalline materials.15 July
Congratulations to our President, Michael Glazer, who has recently been appointed to a Professorship by the University of Oxford.28 June 96
- Congratulations to our previous President, Judith Howard
on the award of a C.B.E. in the Queen's
Birthday Honours (List published 15 June 1996) for Services to Science.
, and on the award (announced in May 96)of a Royal Society Leverhulme
Trust Senior Research Fellowship to allow her more time for research.
Judith also featured as one of the women in the EPSRC Newsline Special Issue (May 96) The Distaff Side of Science focus on the lives of 12 women who work in science, engineering and technology. - Congratulations to Alan Whitaker who was awarded the Annual Research Medal of the Worshipful Company of Dyers for 1995 at thier Livery Dinner in the Dyers' Hall, London on 24 April 1996. The award was made for his series of papers on the Crystal Structure of Organic Pigments
8 Nov 95
Congratulations to Aaron Klug, on his recent award of the OM (Order of Merit) and best wishes for a successful term of office as President of the Royal Society.3 Nov 95
Congratulations to Peter Salt on winning the Industrial Group Award 1995 for his work on clay minerals analysis including Occupational Health studies of crystalline silica.1 Oct 95
Congratulations to Michael Hart on his appointment (October 1995) as Chairman of the National Syncrotron Light Source in New York, USA
The Obituaries were moved to a separate file in Feb 1999
Index to Obituaries in other files
The name are stored in alphabetical order of surname. More complete information is stored elsewhere, this is only the index to obituaries stored in the BCA pages.- Uli Arndt obituary by Andrew Leslie
- Alun Bowen obituary by Kathy Clay and Eric Kelly
- Bill Cochran by ?
- Gordon Cox by Durward Cruickshank
Durward also gave the Bragg lecture in 1997 on Gordon Cox and Leeds - Francis Crick
- Durward Cruikshank
- Desomnd Cunningham
- Robert Evans
- Charles Frank by Andrew Lang
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Ken Holmes
- George Jeffrey
- Ron Jenkins obituary by David Taylor
- John Kendrew by Max Perutz
- Ted Maslen eulogy by Syd Hall
- Helen Megaw obituary by Mike Glazer
- Nevill Mott
- Richard Nelmes
- Max Perutz obituary by David Blow
- David Chilton Phillips 1924 - 1999
- 'Tiny' Powell
- John Rollett by Durward Cruickshank
- John Robertson by Bob Gould and Jackie Truter
- Peter Salt by Nick Elton
- Clifford G Shull pioneer of neutron scattering
- Robin Shirley
- Bela Szigeti
- Charles Taylor by Richard Welberry
- Hal Taylor by Lesley Dent Glasser
- Jackie Truter
- Peter Wheatley by Frank Allen
- Maurice Wilkins
- Arthur Wilson by Ian Langford
Index to people by name
The names are stored in alphabetical order of surname, they include references to everyone mentioned in this file and will have links to obituaries. (when I get around to it! BCA Webmaster Feb 99)- Brian Bellamy IG award 96
- Harshad K.D.H.Bhadeshia made FRS
- D.Keith Bowen made FRS
- Richard Catlow appointed a Director at the R.I.
- Bob Cernik made a visiting Prof
- Lesley D Glasser
- award of IOP medal,
- award of MBE
- wrote obituary of Hal Taylor
- Mike Glazer made a Prof
- Michael Hart appointed Chairman of the National Syncrotron Light Source in New York, USA
- Ken Holmes
- Judith A.K.Howard
- Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society 2002
- Award of EPSRC Senior fellowship 1998
- Award of CBE 1996
- award of Royal Soc Leverhulme Trust Senior Research fellowship 1996
- featured in EPSRC Newsline Special in 1996
- Aaron Klug awarded OM & Pres of RS
- Andrew Lang wins Hughes medal of RS
- Malcolm McMahon
- wins 2 prizes
- has Royal Society fellowshp, IUCr99 logo designer
- Richard Nelmes
- Peter Salt wins IG award
- Alan Whitaker medal of Worshipful Company of Dyers for 1995
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