Light is a Messenger
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0: Introduction
1: A shy and reserved person: Adelaide, 1886-1908
2: Concatenation of fortunate circumstances: Cambridge, 1909-1914
3: Our show is going famously: World War One, 1914-1919
4: A system of simple and elegant architecture: Manchester, 1919-1930
5: Plus-plus chemistry: Manchester, 1931-1937
6: Supreme position in British physics: The National Physics Laboratory and Cambridge, 1937-1939
7: He will have to be Sir Lawrence: World War Two, 1939-1945
8: A message in code which we cannot yet decipher: Cambridge, 1945-53
9: The art of popular lecturing on scientific subjects: The Royal Institution, 1954-1966
10: A very difficult affair indeed: Retirement, 1966-1971
11: Epilogue

About the Author

Dr Graeme Kenneth Hunter, School of Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C1, Canada, Tel. no: 519 661 2185, Fax no: 519 850 2459, E-mail address: Graeme.hunter@fmd.uwo.ca

Graduated from the University of Glasgow with first class honours in Biochemistry in 1976, and completed Ph.D. in Biochemistry there four years later. Post-doctoral research at Stanford University, the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Alberta in 1988. In 1991, took up the position of Associate Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, promoted to
Professor in 2000. Since 1996, has acted as Assistant Director for Research in the School of Dentistry. Research interests are biomineralization and the history and philosophy of science.

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