The names of current (December 1999) Honorary members are listed below in alphabetical order of surname, with brief summaries of their achievements, where further information is available there is a link to it with the word info. Please send further details to the Editor of 'Crystallography News' so that we can compile a readily available biographical archive and bibliography on the BCA Web site.

• Arnold Beevers info
  One of the two originators of the Beevers-Lipson strips, which enabled Fourier calculations to be made as part of structure solutions in the days before computers were available. Carried out many early structure determinations. Latterly set up Beevers Miniature Model Unit, which now exports molecular models throughout the world, and provides useful work for the disabled in the Edinburgh area.
  
  
• Bill Cochran
  While at Cavendish Laboratory made many contributions to crystallography; notably the theory of diffraction from helical structures (an idea used by Crick and Watson in the DNA double helix model), phonon dispersion and the soft mode theory of phase transitions. Author, with Henry Lipson, of one of the early 'standard' crystallography texts.
  
  
• Bob Evans
  One of the founder members of the IUCr. He was their first General Secretary and an early editor of Acta Cryst.
  
  
• Bruce Forsyth info
  Well known for his fundamental work on neutron scattering from magnetic structures and for his role in organising the common method of instrument control and data collection used by all instruments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's ISIS Facility. While the BCA Vice president he pioneered the idea of 'Oral Posters' for training in giving concise lectures at the BCA Annual meeting and ably hosted many of the early ones.
  
  
• Ron Jenkins info
  One of the pioneers of the ICDD powder diffraction file.
  
  
• Aaron Klug info
  Current President of the Royal Society, Nobel Laureate in 1982 for his work on the development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his discovery of the structures of biologically important nucleic acid - protein complexes.
  
  
• Helen Megaw info
  Distinguished scientist from the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge, where she was a student of J D Bernal. Made the first structure determination of a ferroelectric material, barium titanate. Early determination of ice structure led to her having an island in the Antarctic named after her. Major contributor on the structures of felspars.
  
  
• Max Perutz info
  Nobel Laureate in 1962 for his work on the structure of haemoglobin.
  
  
• John E. Walker info
  Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1997 for the elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme
  
  
• Terry Willis info
  Made Important contributions in neutron scattering, particularly thermal motion and in uranium compounds. Organiser of many 'Harwell Summer Schools' in Neutron scattering.