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| Education Summary |
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1991 - BA (hons.) MA (Oxon.) Chemistry, Balliol College, Oxford University
Chemistry Part I (3 years) - Supplementary subject: Quantum Chemistry (distinction). Elected to Mouatt-Jones Scholarship. Awarded Greville-Smith Prize in Chemistry.
Chemistry Part II (1 year) - Research involving the design and investigation of a liquid metal ion injection source for the generation of photo-electron microscopic images.
Part II Thesis title: "Ion Injection in Electron Spectromicroscopy". Supervisor: Professor David W. Turner FRS.
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1995 - PhD Physical Chemistry, St. Johns College, Cambridge University
Full time Ph.D. research in the fields of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). One year at the Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry and three years at the Department of Chemistry.
Supervised St. Johns College undergraduates in mathematics for the Natural Science degree course.
Ph.D. Thesis title: "The Separation of Chemical Shifts and Spin-Spin Splittings in Proton NMR Spectroscopy". Supervisor: Professor Ray Freeman FRS.
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1996 - MRSC CChem Royal Society of Chemistry
Structured programme during my Ph.D. research years to become a Member of the RSChem and Chartered Chemist status.
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| A Vain Acknowledgement |
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| I'd like to acknowledge, perhaps in vain, the help I had from two "Steves", without whom learning scientific computing would not have been quite the pleasure that it has... |
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Steve Jobs & NeXT Computer
When Steve Jobs set up NeXT Computer in 1985, he and the people at NeXT created something truly remarkable.
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The NeXT Cube and NeXTStation computers combined the power and stability of Unix with the easiest to use and most beautiful graphical interface the world had yet seen. The NeXTStep OS now lies at the heart of Apple OSX.
And it is little wonder that Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT at CERN to develop the very first web server and web browser.
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| A NeXTStation Color System 1991 |
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Stephen Wolfram & Mathematica
Stephen Wolfram released the first major version of Mathematica in 1988, bundled with the first academic NeXTs.
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Mathematica is without question the finest software for analytical algebra, computational mathematics and visualisation of complex forms and data sets. It is hard to imagine doing scientific computing or teaching mathematics without it.
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| Fellowship of the Cerebrals Society |
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If a high IQ is a measure of anything, it is one's ability to achive high scores on IQ tests.
The common scales for IQ measurement are the Wechler (US) and the Cattell B (British).
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To become a member of the British Mensa society, you need an IQ greater than 98% of the population, or 148 on the Cattell B scale and 132 on the Wechsler.
To become a Fellow of the Cerebrals society, you need a measured IQ greater than 99.7% of the population, or 165 on the British Catell B scale and 142 on the American Wechsler.
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The Cerebrals Society accepts members who have achieved the required score on one of a number of recognised administered tests, including the Cerebrals Cognitive Ability Test (Xavier Jouve, Maria Faverio, Michael Woodley, Karin Lindgren & James Watterson). The CCAT is a challenging "power test" (untimed) with 136 questions. Here is one:
What is the smallest number (N) expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways?
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a3 + b3 = N
c3 + d3 = N
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