John R. Helliwell

The Whens and Wheres of a Scientific Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an epilogue to a scientific life trilogy of books on the Hows (i.e. skills) the Whys and the Whats of a scientific life. Starting with what is science, then on to what is physics, what is chemistry and what is biology the epilogue provides an insight into everyday situations in terms of types of obstacles faced.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000344189
• Artikelnr.: 60681739

Autorenporträt

John R Helliwell, DSc (Physics, University of York), DPhil (Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University) is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at The University of Manchester, where he served as Professor of Structural Chemistry from 1989 to 2012. Academic teaching from 1979 till 1988 was at the Universities of Keele and York in the physics departments there. He is a researcher in the fields of crystallography, biophysics, structural biology, structural chemistry and data science. He was also based at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at the UK's Daresbury Laboratory, in various periods of appointment between 1979 to 2008, including in 2002 as Director of Synchrotron Radiation Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Biology, and the American Crystallographic Association, an Honorary Member of the British Crystallographic Association and of the British Biophysical Society. He is a Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences & Arts of Barcelona, Spain and Honorary Member of the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia. His awards include the European Crystallographic Association Eighth Max Perutz Prize 2015, the American Crystallographic Association Patterson Award 2014, and the 'Professor K Banerjee Endowment Lecture Silver Medal' of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) 2001. He published over 200 scientific research papers and several books, e.g. Macromolecular Crystallography with Synchrotron Radiation with Cambridge University Press (1992), published in paperback in 2005 and Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection with N E Chayen and E H Snell), Oxford University Press - International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography (2010). He has published several Scientific Life, popular science, books in recent years, which are with CRC Press Taylor and Francis.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Instrumentation
The ninety degrees beryllium window
Trim the shielding
Part 2 Education and training
A joyful tutorial group
The lecture
The hopeless postgraduate student Part 3 Conferencing
The lecture
Parallel conference sessions
The lecture chairman
Asking a question and making a comment
Part 4 Research
Alpha unfunded
The referee..... So you want to see the data
The Editor
The Critique
Part 5Administration
The Head of Department
A pay raise
Equality of opportunity, Yes
No conflict of interest
How, Why, What, no admittance
A successful nomination but
Part 6 More joys of science
Fresh ideas
New methods
New results
New applications
Appendices