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xxii Annual Report of the Delegacy of 30 Ph and Sc students Many of these now hold important industrial and academic appointments He served on several national committees and international commissions on radio propagation and the publications of his group have contributed substantially to advances in this field He served on the Delegacy and the Professorial Board as representa- tive of the non-professorial staif and founder secretary of the Staff Stu- dent Club and Treasurer of the Science Faculty Society for many years All the members of the Department and his past students will remember him as one of the kindest and most cheerful of their col- leagues and join in wishing him long and happy retirement In bidding farewell to Dr Chapman the Delegacy places on record their gratitude for his many years of service and extend their best wishes for many years of happy retirement Dr EUiott sc ph sc Dr Elliot took his Ph at Durham University in 1928 in molecular spectroscopy and subsequently held Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Utrecht where he took further doctorate In 1931 he was appointed to lectureship in Physics at Sheffield University which he held until 1946 He was seconded to the Admiralty Research Laboratory during the period 1940-46 where he was leader of the group concerned with the military applications of infrared In 1946 he went as Senior Physicist to the Courtauld Research Laboratory at Maidenhead where he was concerned with the application of infrared and X-ray spectroscopy to the study of the structures of fibrous proteins and synthetic polypeptides He developed selenium film polarisers and reflecting miscroscope techniques which greatly assisted research in these fields In 1962 he held Senior Common- wealth Fellowship in Melbourne On the closure of the Courtauld Laboratory in 1963 he was appointed Lecturer in Biophysics at King's College becoming Reader in 1965 Here he has been concerned with electron microscopy and X-ray studies of proteins and has developed interference techniques for the assessment of these in electrophonetic gels At present he has project supported by the Medical Research Council for studying the structure and action of the 'catch' muscle in bivalves such as oysters and he will be continuing to work in the Biophysics Department on this topic after his retirement in September