Information about people associated with UK Crystallography
This page contains a list of people associated with British Crystallography, together with links to other BCA pages with further information about them. Last updated 29 May 2006.It is still under construction, please help by telling me other names which you think should be in this list.
I plan to add all the links to this list, meanwhile there may be further information in the links to other files listed below:
- News of others who were not themselves crystallographers but whose work contributed to crystallographic techniques, or who wrote on crystallographic topics.
- There is a name index to everyone mentioned in the good news file
- There is an index to obituaries in other files.
- Brief announcement of deaths on other pages last updated 27 Feb 1999.
- News items before October 1995 (coming soon 3 Mar 99)
- Current and Former Officers of the BCA
- articles on the History of Crystallography
People associated with British crystallography
The names are stored in alphabetical order of surname- William Thomas Astbury
- G.Bacon
- Fifty uears of neutron scattering - a celebration meeeting to mark the 80th birthday of George Bacon
- W.Barlow
- Arnold Beevers
- An appreciation of Henry Lipson
- My Contacts with Paul von Groth by Arnold Beevers
- The Crum Brown Beevers museum by Arnold Beevers
- Arnold Beevers at 90 by Bob Gould
- The mechanism of Beevers-Lipson strips
- Obituary from 'Crystallography News' March 2001
- Brian Bellamy IG award 96
- John Desmond Bernal
- 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Biomolecular Structure Laboratory at Birkbeck College
- Book review J.D.Bernal a life in science and politics
- Harshad K.D.H.Bhadeshia made FRS
- David Blow info
- Tom Blundell
- Alun Bowen
- Former BCA Council member
- obituary by Kathy Clay and Eric Kelly
- IG award in 96
- IG Indistrial lectures named for him
- D.Keith Bowen made FRS
- R.Boyle
- W.H.Bragg (the father) and W.L.Bragg (the son)
- The Braggs in Leeds in 1912 and the birth of structural crystallography
- Nobel Prize Winners in 1915 for Physics
- Commemorative Postage stamp
- The Bragg lectures, locations and lecturers.
- A Blue Plaque was erected by the Institute of Physics for W.H.Bragg
- Lawrence Bragg opens the Biomolecular Research Laboratory at Birkbeck College in 1948
- text of a radio broadcast by W.L.Bragg in 1945
- bibliography about the Braggs
- Jane Brown won 2 prizes in 2001
- Brewster
- Charles William Bunn 1905 - Easter 1990 See issue 34 Sep 90 p13
- Richard Catlow appointed a Director at the R.I.
- Bob Cernik made a visiting Prof
- William Cochran
- Sir Gordon Cox
- Obituary by Durward Cruickshank
- Joint presenter of the Bragg lecture in 1993
- The Bragg lecture in 1997 on Gordon Cox and Leeds given by Durward Cruickshank
- Obituary by Durward Cruickshank
- Seymour Cray
- Frincis Crick
- Durward Cruickshank info Former BCA Vice president
- Dalton
- Bob Diamond
- FormerBCA President 1990 - 92
- Eleanor Dodson
- Guy Dodson
- Bruce Forsyth
- Honorary member BCA 1999
- FormerBCA Vice President 1993-97
- Worked on the XMaS CRG
- Charles Frank
- obituary by Andrew Lang
- memorial service
- 80th Birthday symposium held in Bristol see 'Crystallography News' March 91 p39, proceedings published later by IOP publishimg.
- Rosalind Franklin
- Reginald Gibbs
- Lesley D Glasser
- Award of IOP medal see also March 98 Issue
- Award of MBE
- Mike Glazer made a Prof
- Bob Gould former chairman CCG
- Shiela Gould now runs Beevers Miniature Models
- Michael Hart
- Former BCA Council member
- appointed Chairman of the National Syncrotron Light Source in New York, USA
- Brief Biography
- John Helliwell
- Vice president BCA 1989 - 93
- Brief Biography
- website and further awards
- Gerhard Herzberg, spectroscopist
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Nobel prize winner 1964 and O.M.
- Kenneth Charles Holmes
- Hooke
- Judith A.K.Howard
- Former BCA President and Secretary
- Award of EPSRC Senior fellowship
- Award of CBE
- award of Royal Soc Leverhulme Trust Senior Research fellowship
- featured in EPSRC Newsline Special
- David Hughes
- George Jeffery born in Cardiff 29 July 1915 died in Pittsburgh, USA 13 Feb 2000
- Ron Jenkins
Joint Author with Robert Snyder of- Introduction to X-ray Powder Diffractometry
- A practical Guide for the preparation of Specimens for X-ray diffraction analysis
- obituary by David Taylor
- Louise Johnson
- Olga Kennard
- Royal Society Olga Kennard Fellowships established in 2000
- Sir John Kendrew
- obituary by Max Perutz
- Nobel prize for chemistry in 1962
- James Newington King 1937 - 1993 issue 47 Dec 93
- Aaron Klug
- Born in 1926 Lithuania, emigrated to South Africa at an early age, awarded a Nobel prize in 1982.
- awarded OM and President of the Royal Society
- Honorary member BCA 1999
- Opened the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory June 1997
- Nicholas Kurti obituary
- Andrew Lang one of our Honorary members won the Hughes medal of Royal Society
- Alan Leadbetter meeting to celebrate his acheivements on Retirement
- Henry Lipson see 'Crystallography News' Sep 1991 p6,7an appreciation by Arnold Beevers
- Kathleen Lonsdale
- Alan Mackay
- Ted Maslen obituary Ted Maslen eulogy by Syd Hall
- Malcolm McMahon wins 2 prizes, RS fellowshp, logo designer
- Helen D. Megaw
- A. Moreton Moore
- Miller indices
- Nevill Mott obituary
- Richard John Nelmes
- Isaac Newton
- Tony North
- Max Perutz Nobel prizewinner and founder of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge
- Michael Polanyi ( 1891 - 1976 )Review of his biography
- David Chilton Phillips
- obituaries published in 'The Times' and the 'Independent' 26 Feb 1999
- First BCA president 1982 -1984
- Meeting in his honour, Oxford July 1991 for the program see 'Crystallography News' Dec 1990 p39
- Contribution to Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Meeting in 1996
- 'Tiny' Powell
- J.M.Robertson
- Don Rogers
- John Rollett obituary by Durward Cruickshank
- Peter Salt
- wins IG award for 1995
- Obituary by Nick Elton
- Anne Sayre biographer of Rosalind Franklin
- Clifford G Shull, the 'father' of neutron scattering
- Bela Szigeti
- Charles Taylor
- 1st Treasurer of the BCA 1982-84
- obituary by Richard Welberry in June 2002 'Crystallography News'
- 1st Treasurer of the BCA 1982-84
- David Taylor
- Chairman Industrial Group 1997-1998, IG webmaster 1999 -
Ordinary member BCA Council 1999 - 2000
Treasurer of the BCA 2000 -
Click here for his election address - wrote Obituary for Ron Jenkins
- Chairman Industrial Group 1997-1998, IG webmaster 1999 -
- HFW ('Hal' Taylor Obituary
- W.H.Taylor see 'Crystallography News June 1984 p6
- John E Walker winner of 1997 Nobel prize for Chemistry
- Peter Wheatley obituary by Frank Allen
- James Watson
- Alan Whitaker medal of the Worshipful Company of Dyers for 1995
- Maurice Wilkins
- Terry Willis
- Brief Biography
- Report of Meeting in celebration of his 70th Birthday
- Arthur Wilson obituary by Ian Langford
- W.H.Wollaston
- Michael Woolfson info Former BCA President
- W.A.Wooster
- Hans Gerhard Zachmann
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