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| | Dielectrics Group : Mansel Davies Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Born in Aberdare, South Wales, he entered The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1930 where he took his initial and masters degrees in Chemistry. |
 | | He became a schoolteacher in Bethesda, North Wales in 1940 then joined Astbury's laboratory at Leeds in 1942 where he used X-rays to study protein structure and obtained some of the first diffraction data for DNA. |
 | | He retired in 1978 to Criccieth, North Wales where he pursued his interests in classical music, literature, history of science, especially that of China (inspired by his friend Joseph Needham), and his passion for the collection of rare books. |
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