Edinburgh University Chemistry Class of 1966
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Alan Leishman
Alan at his Swiss chalet, 2016
Alan has recently (2016) published three new books plus a colour version of a previously black and white one. See:
Alan with a Komodo Dragon in Indonesia in 2013
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From a note to Alan Masson , 4th November 2016:
I graduated BSc. Chem. in the McEwan Hall in Edinburgh, in 1966.
So I gave the University of Edinburgh a small contribution last year when they appealed to Alumni to restore the Hall.
This is the state of the on going work currently, see:
My contribution qualified for my name together with all fellow graduate contributors to be displayed in a mosaic on the entrance floor.
So when it is finished, and after I am gone, I hope to have generations of students walking over me to perhaps occasionally wake me out of my siesta and keep me informed on the latest developments in Chemistry in Edinburgh and the world.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, widower of Norma Scholan
announced in October 2016, shortly before the Reunion
Following this came news that one of my classmates at Edinburgh Academy, Mike Kosterlitz, had shared this year's Nobel prize in Physics:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/04/david-thouless-duncan-haldane-and-michael-kosterlitz-win-nobel-prize-in-physics
So I may have graduated at the bottom of my class in 1966, because my hormones were somewhat in conflict with my studies, and distracted my interest towards the fairer sex rather than the joys of Chemistry, but now in retrospect I realise that I was actually much closer to the top than the bottom of the Scientific world, because many of my fellow students were of such an outstanding quality that I had not fully appreciated at the time. Congratulations to all of them!
Floreat Academia (Edinburgh Academy)