GUY BOMFORD MA DSc OBE

Guy Bomford Prize Lecture 2011 Atmospheric Effects in Space Geodesy

The atmosphere is surrounding the solid Earth and the oceans, and with its variations at time scales from seconds to decades it opens up a wide field of challenging and fascinating tasks in space geodesy. The investigation of these atmospheric effects and the analysis of geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations have dominated my research in the past decade. Geodetic VLBI w...

Professor John Edgar Morison OBE, MD, DSc, FRCOG, FRCPath (1912–2007)

Dr JE Morison, later to become Honorary Professor of Histopathology, died on 5 September, 2007 aged 95, after a short illness. To all his colleagues he was familiarly known as ‘John Edgar’. He gave outstanding service to the Ulster Medical Society, acting as editor of the Ulster Medical Journal for 32 years (1951-1984). Professor DAD Montgomery was his co-editor from 1975-1984. In his review of...

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972), MA,MD,DSc,FRCP,FRS.

OBE: Outlier by Example

Outlier detection in large datasets is an important problem. There are several recent approaches that employ very reasonable definitions of an outlier. However, a fundamental issue is that the notion of which objects are outliers typically varies between users or, even, datasets. In this paper, we present a novel solution to this problem, by bringing users into the loop. Our OBE (Outlier By Exa...

Mr Leslie Paine MA (Oxon), OBE Formerly House Governor of the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital (1963-1985)

Leslie Paine (or Nicky as he was widely known), who has died aged 92, was, among other things, a wartime pilot who won the Russian Federation’s Ushanov Medal and Arctic Star, a distinguished rugby player, a prolific writer on health services organisation and a highly respected psychiatric hospital administrator. He was hospital administrator and later House Governor to the Joint Bethlem Royal a...