Inorganic Rings and Polymers of the p-Block Elements: From Fundamentals to Applications Inorganic Rings and Polymers of the p-Block Elements: From Fundamentals to Applications . By Tristam Chivers (University of Calgary, Canada) and Ian Manners (University of Bristol, UK). Royal Society of Chemistry : Cambridge . 2009 . xii + 336 pp. $109. ISBN 978-1-84755-906-7 .

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (46) ◽  
pp. 17031-17032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Inorganic Rings ◽  
University Of Bristol

scholarly journals Arthur Mannering Tyndall, 1881-1961

1962 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 159-165 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
University College ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

Arthur Mannering Tyndall was a man who played a leading part in the establishment of research and teaching in physics in one of the newer universities of this country. His whole career was spent in the University of Bristol, where he was Lecturer, Professor and for a while Acting ViceChancellor, and his part in guiding the development of Bristol from a small university college to a great university was clear to all who knew him. He presided over the building and development of the H. H. Wills Physical Laboratory, and his leadership brought it from its small beginnings to its subsequent achievements. His own work, for which he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, was on the mobility of gaseous ions. Arthur Tyndall was born in Bristol on 18 September 1881. He was educated at a private school in Bristol where no science was taught, except a smattering of chemistry in the last two terms. Nonetheless he entered University College, obtaining the only scholarship offered annually by the City of Bristol for study in that college and intending to make his career in chemistry. However, when brought into contact with Professor Arthur Chattock, an outstanding teacher on the subject, he decided to switch to physics; he always expressed the warmest gratitude for the inspiration that he had received from him. He graduated with second class honours in the external London examination in 1903. In that year he was appointed Assistant Lecturer, was promoted to Lecturer in 1907, and became Lecturer in the University when the University College became a university in 1909. During this time he served under Professor A. P. Chattock, but Chattock retired in 1910 at the age of 50 and Tyndall became acting head of the department. Then, with the outbreak of war, he left the University to run an army radiological department in Hampshire.

scholarly journals Synthetic biology goes live

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dek Woolfson
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

On 14 November last year, the Biochemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the think-tank BioCentre and the University of Bristol co-hosted a debate on synthetic biology, which was webcast live. Dek Woolfson co-chaired the event from Bristol. Here are his reflections and conclusions from the evening, including some advice on how we might approach the broader issues of the subject and events like this in the future.

Edward Fawcett 1867-1942

1943 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 325-328
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Abdominal Aneurism ◽  
Laboratory Assistant ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

Professor Edward Fawcett, who held the chair of human anatomy in the University of Bristol for forty-one years (1893-1934), and was elected to the Royal Society in 1923, died suddenly as he walked up Lower Park Row, Bristol, on 23 September 1942, in his seventy-sixth year. Just before his collapse in the street, he had climbed a flight of steps (‘Christmas Steps’); it was found that death was due to the rupture of an abdominal aneurism which had escaped diagnosis. He was fair in colouring, stood about six feet in height, with an erect carriage, body and limbs being well proportioned; he excelled in both cricket and at golf. He had exceptional manipulative skill, a gift which served him well in his chosen profession, particularly when he came to reconstruct enlarged models of embryonic and foetal skulls from serial microscopic sections, for in his earlier years he had to be laboratory assistant as well as professor. Carpentry was a pastime, so was photography, which in his retired years assisted him to make accurate records of archaeological features of the churches of surrounding counties—Gloucester, Somerset, and Wilts. He was a man of action rather than of speech; he preferred to let his models and photographs speak for him. Generalizations did not attract him; his aim in life was to provide accurate data to serve as a foundation for generalizations, the drawing of which he was content to leave to others. He had the uncommon faculty of using both hands independently when illustrating his lectures by drawings on the blackboard. Edward Fawcett was the son of Thomas Fawcett, B.A., of Little Blencoe, near Penrith, where he was born, 18 May 1867.

scholarly journals Cell scientist to watch – Binyam Mogessie

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Segregation ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Independent Research ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Cellular Mechanisms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
Mammalian Eggs

ABSTRACT Binyam Mogessie was born and raised in Ethiopia. He moved to Germany in 2004, where he studied biochemistry and cell biology at Jacobs University Bremen. He then moved to the UK for his PhD with Anne Straube, first at the Marie Curie Research Institute in Surrey and later at the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology in Warwick, where he investigated the cellular mechanisms that organise the microtubule cytoskeleton during skeletal muscle differentiation. After receiving his PhD in cell biology from the University of London, he joined the laboratory of Melina Schuh in 2012 as a postdoc at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge (and later at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany), where he discovered a function of the actin cytoskeleton in accurate chromosome segregation and the prevention of aneuploidy in mammalian eggs. Binyam established his independent research laboratory at the University of Bristol, School of Biochemistry in 2018, where he is a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Sir Henry Dale fellow and HFSP Young Investigator. He also received a Seed Award from the Wellcome Trust and funding from the Rosetrees Trust and Royal Society. His lab is investigating actin- and microtubule-based cytoskeletal ensembles that promote healthy egg development and embryogenesis in mammals.

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