Person Woolfson; Michael Mark (1927 - 2019) Woolfson Michael Mark 1927 - 2019 British Male 09/01/1927 19270109 23/12/2019 20191223

Physicist Planetary science X-ray crystallography Biophysics Education: University of Oxford, MA in physics (1947); University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, PhD Career: Research assistant, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1950-1952); Research assistant, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (1952-1954); ICI Fellow, University of Cambridge (1954-1955); University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, lecturer (1955-1961), reader (1961-1965); Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of York (1965-1997) Memberships: RAS; Institute of Physics Michael Woolfson was a leading X-ray crystallographer. He made great progress towards a general solution of the problem of determining crystal structures, and was responsible for the use of direct methods that enabled structures to be deduced directly from the diffraction data. His devices, such as the computer package MULTAN, were responsible for about half of the structures determined around the world in the 1980s. His parallel work on the origin of the Solar System renewed interest in the capture theory, which had been thought to be obsolete, and he contributed numerous stimulating ideas to the general study of the origin and dynamical evolution of the Solar System. He was Chairman of the Royal Society’s Subcommittee on Planetary Sciences. Professor Michael Woolfson FRS died on 23 December 2019. Medals and prizes: Hughes Medal 1986 Fellow 15/03/1984 57 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woolfson International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 9 Jan 1927 - 23 Dec 2019 NA3884 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes b04e3dd5-3e56-4396-880a-413a964f7ddd