Research and Design
Science, a scientist is everything I wanted to be as a child. At school my teachers would comment that I waffled that I would make a "good scientist" but the truth behind my drive to study science was a need to understand why. Why? Yes why!
I've never been the fastest, the funniest or the most popular. I can't spell and I have spent so much of my life being bored it isn't funny. I still wonder why?
I am to my cost out spoken and honest - like all true Yorkshire men are and this may have made things harder for me in the long at least I did get to run!
My ball park
So what excites me?
The science that excites me or which has captured my interest the most is X-ray crystallograpjy and chemistry. I can hear you saying that is two? I know that. In the old days doing crystallography use to be like gambling, will it, won't it, who would know. The chemist half the time didn't know exactly what they had mad so you would be the first to see this molecule. Can you imagine that no one else ever saw that molecule before until you determined its structure how amazing is that?
Chemistry is just as cool as crystallography. Not only do you get to make things for crystallography but think about this for a second you actually get to make and break bonds. You move energy from one place to another. You are "playing God". Yes and no you are ahving an effect on something so small we can't even see it!
I have had a lot of very good teachers over the years and some of those people have changed my path through science. Prof. C. A. McAuliffe did me a great service one day and introduced me to Dr. Robin Pritchard. Robin was the reason I took up X-ray crystallography and if wasn't for that rather random encounter who knows where I would be or what I would be doing.
The Plan
I'm hoping, to put some of my research here on the web, like most well behaved academics do nowadays. It may be interesting to Joe-public perhaps not? Only time will tell.
Favourite Quote
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Sir William Bragg