scholarly journals Sir Rex Edward Richards. 28 October 1922—15 July 2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 387-407
Author(s):  
David G. Gadian
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Invasive Method ◽  
Novel Applications ◽  
The University

Rex Richards was renowned for his research in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Very early on, in the late 1940s, when NMR was in the domain of physicists, he foresaw that the technique might play an important role in chemistry. He embarked on a highly successful research career in which he combined the design and development of new NMR spectrometers with novel applications, initially in chemistry and subsequently in the biological sciences. One major outcome was the establishment of the Oxford Enzyme Group's NMR research programme. Another was the development of 31 P NMR spectroscopy as a non-invasive method of probing the biochemistry of intact biological tissue. Rex was an outstanding teacher and mentor. He also had highly impressive administrative skills, as recognized through successive appointments at the University of Oxford as head of the Physical Chemistry Department, then warden of Merton College and finally vice-chancellor. He was subsequently appointed director of the Leverhulme Trust and became widely respected in the arts world, as reflected by his remarkable array of committee memberships at the National and Tate Galleries.

Strenæ Natalitiæ

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

This chapter looks at Strenæ Natalitiæ, a volume of poems produced by the University of Oxford to celebrate the events of the birth of the Prince of Wales in 1688. The University of Oxford's Strenæ Natalitiæ was a volume of over a hundred poems, with an obligatory introductory poem contributed by vice-chancellor Gilbert Ironside. The contibutors to Strenæ Natalitiæ were not simply a cross-section of the university's membership and poetic talent, but also of its politics. In some respects, youthful naivety might have been a cause of some of the authors' willingness to embrace the birth of James Edward, despite the anxiety felt by some of their fellow authors. Some of the verse was simple, and naïve in tone. Other verses were marked by a more mystical and prophetic tone. Ultimately, the verses in Strenæ Natalitiæ were predictable in their expressions of congratulation and celebration, though some also contained carefully muted expressions of equivocation.

Anthony David Nuttall 1937–2007

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Classical Education ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Essay On Man ◽  
The University

Anthony David Nuttall (1937–2007), a Fellow of the British Academy, was born on April 25, 1937, and grew up in Hereford. He attended Hereford Grammar School and then Watford Grammar School, where he received a thorough, old-fashioned classical education. Nuttall then went to Merton College in the University of Oxford, where he met his lifelong friend Stephen Medcalf. In 1962, he was appointed lecturer in English at the new University of Sussex, rising to professor ten years later, and in 1978 he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor. After twenty-two years teaching at Sussex, Nuttall applied for a fellowship at New College, Oxford. Common Sky (1974) was the book in which he emerged as a critic with a distinctive and compelling way of looking at literature. Another book, Overheard by God (1980) is about George Herbert's poetry, but its first, riveting sentence displays the brilliance of its immodesty. In New Mimesis (1983), Nuttall discusses the present state of literary theory. He also wrote Essay on Man (1984), The Alternative Trinity (1998), and The Stoic in Love (1989).

scholarly journals John Rodney Quayle. 18 November 1926 — 26 February 2006

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Cell Metabolism ◽  
Carbon Assimilation ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Early Training

J. Rodney Quayle was an outstanding microbial biochemist whose early training in pure chemistry was coupled with rigorous enzymology and experience in the relatively new techniques of using radioactive 14 C compounds in the study of metabolic pathways. These he used to investigate and elucidate the pathways of carbon assimilation during microbial growth on compounds with a single carbon atom such as methane and methanol. When he started, little was known about these organisms (methylotrophs), which, largely as a result of his own work and the work inspired by him, have formed the subject of regular international symposia over a period of more than 40 years. After a short time working in Melvin Calvin’s laboratory in California and a very fruitful period in Hans Krebs’s Unit for Research in Cell Metabolism in the University of Oxford he moved for the next 20 years to the University of Sheffield, after which he became a highly successful and popular Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bath. His rigorous approach to his subject, his generosity and inspiration made him a much revered and much loved father figure to generations of microbial biochemists.

Non-invasive Prenatal Determination of Fetal Maturity

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
Elena Dzikova ◽  
Goran Dimitrov ◽  
Olivera Stojceva-Taneva
Keyword(s):  
Gestational Age ◽  
Lamellar Body ◽  
Invasive Technique ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Gynecology And Obstetrics ◽  
Fetal Maturity ◽  
Invasive Method ◽  
The University ◽  
Body Count

Abstract Aims. The prenatal prediction of fetal maturity is very important, since neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is one of the biggest causes of neonatal mortality. Our aim was to investigate a new non-invasive method for prediction of fetal maturity and to determine in which group according to gestational age of the fetus, the treatment works the best and in which cases it is necessary to be repeated. Methods. We examined 60 patients (30 with impending preterm delivery, divided in 3 groups: 28-30, 30-32, and 32-34 gestational weeks and 30 controls), at the University Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical Faculty, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, R. Macedonia. Fetal maturity was examined using ultrasound histogram from fetal lungs and liver, correlated with gestational age and postpartum RDS. Where possible, we performed amniocentesis for lamellar body count (LBC) to correlate our results with the current invasive method for prediction of fetal maturity. Results. Pre-therapy investigation showed a strong fetal immaturity in 28-32 weeks of gestation and less evident fetal immaturity in 32-34 weeks of gestation. Seventy-two hours post-treatment, fetal maturation was low in the first group, higher in the second and the highest in the third group. Amniocentesis for LBC showed correlation with the ultrasound results. Postpartum results were correlated with pre-delivery ultrasound and showed significance of p <0.05. Conclusion. The results obtained in our study were with high significance, and they were in correlation with other similar studies. However, more extensive investigations should be made to replace the current invasive technique.

scholarly journals Researching Terrorism and Political Violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Jennifer Philippa Eggert
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University ◽  
Discipline Differences

Professor Louise Richardson is a political scientist focusing on terrorism and political violence. She became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in January 2016, having previously served at the Universities of St. Andrews and Harvard. She has written widely on international terrorism, British foreign and defence policy, security, and international relations. Professor Richardson holds a BA in History from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Political Science from UCLA as well as an MA and PhD in Government from Harvard University. She visited the University of Warwick in November 2017 to deliver a talk on her career and being a female leader, as part of the University’s ‘Inspiring Women’ series. In this interview, she speaks about research on terrorism and political violence; how approaches to terrorism studies differ between the US and Europe; how the discipline has changed since the 1970s; the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of terrorism and political violence; whether terrorism studies are a distinct discipline; differences between terrorism and conflict studies; and what makes a good university teacher. Photograph credit: OUImages/John Cairns

scholarly journals Jeremy Randall Knowles CBE. 28 April 1935 — 3 April 2008

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
David E. Hansen ◽  
Robert J. P. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
Music And The Arts

Jeremy Randall Knowles was remarkable both as a celebrated organic biochemist and as a wise administrator, and throughout his career he retained a lasting love of music and the arts. He was for several years a tutorial Fellow of Wadham College and a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Oxford, 1962–74. In 1974 he left Oxford permanently for Harvard University to become Professor of Chemistry; in 1979 he was named the Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. To the surprise of many, he later gave up this chair to become the Dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a post he held with great distinction from 1991 to 2002. He returned to Harvard's University Hall again as Interim Dean from 2006 to 2007.

scholarly journals Pharmacology and potential therapeutic uses of some cannabinoids

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. FNL28
Author(s):  
Roger G Pertwee
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Cannabinoids ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Cannabinoid Cb1 Receptor ◽  
Allosteric Site ◽  
Pharmacological Characterization ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Therapeutic Uses ◽  
Assistant Editor ◽  
The University

Roger Pertwee speaks to Jennifer Straiton, Assistant Editor, at the BNA 2019 Festival of Neuroscience (14–17 April, Dublin, Ireland), where he gave a talk titled ‘Pharmacological actions and potential novel therapeutic uses of certain plant and synthetic cannabinoids’. Roger Pertwee is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK), where he has been active in scientific research since 1974. He began his research career at the University of Oxford (UK) where he gained three postgraduate degrees: an MA in biochemistry, a DPhil in pharmacology and a DSc in physiological sciences. His research focuses on the pharmacology of cannabinoids, both on their mechanisms of action and on their potential therapeutic uses. He has held major roles in multiple major discoveries in the field including; the discovery of a cannabinoid CB1 receptor allosteric site, the pharmacological characterization of various phytocannabinoids as well as the co-discovery of endocannabinoids and the co-discovery and characterization of novel synthetic cannabinoids.

Note: The Decline of the Chancellor's Authority in Medieval Cambridge: A Rediscovered Statute

1958 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-182
Author(s):  
W. Ullmann
Keyword(s):  
Original Form ◽  
Concomitant Increase ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Point G ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Autonomous Institution ◽  
The University ◽  
Rough Outline

In accounts of the medieval constitution of the University of Cambridge insufficient attention is paid to the gradual decrease of the Chancellor's authority and the concomitant increase of powers of the regent masters. This development very clearly reflects the growing awareness of the University of itself as an autonomous institution, that is, a body with its own inherent rights and within which the supreme jurisdictional power resided. Although the premisses and presuppositions are different, this development might well show some kinship with contemporary developments elsewhere, namely in the institutional growth of Parliament and in the conciliarist form of church government. This rather important evolution of the University constitution has not yet been properly appreciated, mainly because the individual statutory enactments by which the gradual transfer of authority from the (ecclesiastical) Chancellor to the whole University took place had not been known. What was known was one Statute, through which alone the stages of the development could not, of course, be recognized. Moreover, when touching upon this point, G. Peacock and C. H. Cooper relied on a Statute which substantially differs in its wording and in its subject-matter from that printed by the Commissioners in 1852, on which J. B. Mullinger, Sir Stanley Leathes and Dean Rashdall drew. Fortunately, the Statute in its original form has been preserved as an original document in the Archives of the University of Cambridge, and it enables us to trace, at least in rough outline, this process of displacement of authority which ended in the control by the regent masters (through their proctors) over the chancellor and vice-chancellor. As far as can be established, there was no corresponding development at the University of Oxford.

A relation sent Novemb. 16. 1674. from a very credible and ingeni­ous person, Mr. Samuel du Gard, Rector of Forton in Shropshire, to Dr. Ra. Bathurst Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and by him communicated to a Friend of his in London; concerning a strange kind of bleeding in a little child

1674 ◽  
Vol 9 (109) ◽  
pp. 193-194
Keyword(s):  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

I Am bold to give you a Narration of the Distemper of a Child at Lillesball , a little Town in Shropshire , because it is very unusual, (if ever the like hath been heard by you before; and also because I have certain evidence of the thing.

The research career of Richard B. Stein (1940–)

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 531-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
D G Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Postdoctoral Training ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Active Researcher ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

This report reviews the research and mentoring career of Richard B. Stein (1940–). In 1962, he completed a B.S. degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and thereafter an M.A. (1964), Ph.D. (1966), and postdoctoral training (1966–68) at the University of Oxford, UK. He subsequently assumed a faculty position at the University of Alberta (Canada), where he is currently an active researcher and mentor. To this point in 2004, Stein has trained and collaborated closely with over 160 scientists, largely neuroscientists and biomedical engineers, from 27 countries. He and his former trainees and collaborators have made important contributions on topics that span the cellular-to-behavioral spectrum of movement and rehabilitation–prosthetics neuroscience. His mentors, trainees, and collaborators include scientists whose countries of origin are: Australia, 2; Austria, 1; Belgium, 1; Bulgaria, 1; Canada, 64; China, 6; Denmark, 1; Germany, 1; Great Britain, 16; Hong Kong, 4; India, 5; Iraq, 2; Italy, 2; Japan, 10; Kenya, 1; New Zealand, 4; Pakistan, 1; Palestine, 1; Poland, 1; Romania, 1; South Africa, 1; Sri Lanka, 1; The Netherlands, 1; Turkey, 1; Uruguay, 1; USA, 21; and Yugoslavia, 6. In all instances, Stein's research collaborations and mentoring have advanced the careers of his trainees and junior collaborators, a well-deserved and important compliment to a stellar movement neuroscientist.Key words: movement neuroscience, rehabilitation neuroscience, prosthetics.

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