Alfred William Porter, 1863 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 87-88
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Oliver Lodge ◽  
The University ◽  
Serious Injuries

Alfred William Porter died on 11 January 1939 at West Kirby, Cheshire, to which place he had removed after partial recovery from serious injuries sustained about a year earlier in a street accident in London, where he had spent most of his life. He was born on 12 November 1863, and in his early years lived in Liverpool. He began training as an architect, but, his interest in physics having been stimulated by association with Oliver Lodge, he began to study this subject seriously and entered upon an academic career at the age of twenty-seven. He was a student first at Liverpool University College and later at University College, London, graduating there in 1890. In the same year he became a demonstrator in the Physics Department, and thus began an association with University College, London, which was uninterrupted until his retirement in 1928 with the title of Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of London. During this long association he served under four Professors— Carey Foster, H. L. Callendar, F. T. Trouton and W. H. Bragg —as Assistant Professor. He was elected a Fellow of University College in 1897, and was appointed University Reader in Thermodynamics in 1912. It was not until 1923 that he himself became Professor in the Department to which he had devoted so much of his energy.

scholarly journals Obituary notice

1929 ◽  
Vol 124 (795) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Indian Mutiny ◽  
Obituary Notice ◽  
The University

Micaiah John Muller Hill was the eldest son of the Rev. Samuel John Hill and was born at Berhampore, Bengal, on February 22, 1856, during the stormy days of the Indian Mutiny, in which he narrrowly escaped death. He was educated at the School for the Sons of Missionaries, Blackheath, and entered University College, London, as a student in October, 1872. His academic career in London was one long sequence of brilliant successes and at the same time an arduous struggle against financial difficulties which he could overcome only by winning such scholarships as the College and the University of London had to offer in those days—rare and coveted distinctions which fell to the lot of very few. In 1874 he took his B. A. degree in London, obtaining the first place in the Mathematical Honours List, a feat he accomplished in only two years and which he followed up in 1876 by winning the Gold Medal in the M. A. Examination. By this time he had entered as an undergraduate at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1879 he was Fourth Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman. He then returned to University College for a few months as assistant in the Department of Mathematics, and in 1880, at the age of twenty-four, was elected to the Chair of Mathematics at Mason College, as it then was, now the University of Birmingham.

scholarly journals Ida Caroline Ward

1950 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 542-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Major Work ◽  
African Languages ◽  
The North ◽  
European Languages ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Speech Defects ◽  
The University

In the death of Professor Ida Ward in the Guildford Hospital on 10th October 1949, just after her sixty-ninth birthday, African studies lost one of their greatest exponents, and Africa one of its best friends.Ida Caroline Ward was born in Bradford on the 4th October 1880, the eighth child of a Yorkshire wool merchant. Prom a school in Bradford she went to the Darlington Training College and later to Durham University, where she graduated B.Litt. with distinction. The North Country background of her early years remained with her always and gave a delightful “ common-sense ” colour to her character.After sixteen years of teaching in secondary schools, she joined the Phonetics Department under Professor Daniel Jones in University College, London, in 1919, and soon established herself as an authority in the phonetics of the main European languages and in the study of speech defects. Noteworthy works of this period are A Handbook of English Intonation (written in collaboration with the late Lilian E. Armstrong), The Phonetics of English, and Speech Defects, Their Nature and Cure. Her interest in her mother tongue persisted, and she was actually working on another edition of the book on English Intonation when she died.It was while lecturing at University College to missionaries that her interests turned towards West African languages—Kanuri, Igbo and Efik were her first fields of African research—and her first major work, The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Efik (for which the University of London awarded her the D.Lit. in 1933), threw a new light on the study of these languages, and showed that intonation, that element hitherto so elusive, was one that could and should be studied if justice was to be done to African languages.

John Terence Coppock 1921–2000

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Clout
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
World Food ◽  
Geographical Union ◽  
University College London ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Agricultural Geography

Terry Coppock FBA was a pioneer in three areas of scholarship – agricultural geography, land-use management and computer applications – whose academic career was at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he was the first holder of the Ogilvie Chair in Geography. He received the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographic Society and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976. Coppock, who was Secretary and then Chair of the Commission on World Food Problems and Agricultural Productivity of the International Geographical Union, served as Secretary Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Obituary by Hugh Clout FBA.

THUR 037 Identification of biofluid markers of TDP-43 pathology

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (10) ◽  
pp. A5.4-A6
Author(s):  
Shafei Rachelle ◽  
Foiani Martha ◽  
Heller Carolin ◽  
Heslegrave Amanda ◽  
Woollacott Ione ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The University

IntroductionFrontotemporal dementia (FTD) is usually caused pathologically by either tau or TDP-43. Previous biofluid assays of TDP-43 have not so far proved to be sensitive or specific for identifying those cases with TDP-43 pathology.Material and methodsWe set out to investigate the novel TDP-43 Simoa assay (Quanterix) assay in both plasma and CSF in a cohort of patients recruited from the University College London FTD observational studies with known or likely TDP-43 pathology (17), non-TDP-43 pathology (13), and healthy controls (10).ResultsThe mean [standard deviation] plasma TDP-43 concentration was higher in those with likely TDP-43 pathology (155.1 [223.4] pg/ml) than those with non-TDP pathology (112.39 [252.9] pg/ml), and healthy controls (50.0 [23.1] pg/ml), but the differences between groups was non-significant, with substantial overlap in concentrations between all three groups. The mean CSF TDP-43 concentration was 2.9 [0.3] pg/ml in those with likely TDP-43 pathology, 2.8 [0.4] pg/ml in those with non-TDP pathology, and 3.1 [0.5] pg/ml in healthy controls. DiscussionThe assay tested in this study does not accurately distinguish between those with likely TDP-43 pathology and either disease controls or healthy individuals. There remains an urgent need to develop a better biofluid assay for pathological TDP-43.

Hotel-based ambulatory care for complex cancer patients: a review of the University College London Hospital experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 2397-2404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sive ◽  
Kirit M. Ardeshna ◽  
Simon Cheesman ◽  
Franel le Grange ◽  
Stephen Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ambulatory Care ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
Hospital Experience ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Arthur Donald Walsh, 8 August 1916 - 23 April 1977

1978 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 569-582
Keyword(s):  
Physical Chemistry ◽  
Internal Combustion Engine ◽  
Electronic Structures ◽  
Combustion Engine ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Polyatomic Molecules ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The University

Donald Walsh became eminent in two important fields of physical chemistry during his active academic career. These were (i) the spectroscopy and electronic structures of polyatomic molecules and (ii) the combustion of hydrocarbons particularly with reference to the performance of the internal combustion engine. In addition to these research pursuits his activities in helping to establish the University of Dundee and in nursing it through the early years of its existence will long be remembered by those with whom he shared this struggle.

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