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About the Author

 The Author's Personal Profile

Publications

 A categorized list of publications

History of
the Group

 A light-hearted look at the history of the Reading University Polymer Science Centre, and its current research

the Story of
Polyethylene.

 A look at the plastic which helped us survive the Second World War, and is still breaking new ground in usefulness

Useful Tips

  Photographic, Chemical, (not so many as yet...)

Picture Gallery

 A look at the ALIEN IN THE PLASTIC BUCKET, and many more wonders of the microscopic world of plastics
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21

Perhaps a modern man can understand the Christian idea best if he takes it in connection with Evolution  - C.S.Lewis, "Mere Christianity" Bk.IV, Ch.11
The Metric System is easy:
A metre is one yard and ten barleycorns, there's five furlongs to a kilometre, and the speed of light is one foot per nanosecond.
But the weights? Now that's a different matter entirely ...