Louise Napier Johnson (1940–2012)

Dame Louise Napier Johnson (1940–2012)

One of the pioneering spirits of protein crystallography has passed away. Professor Louise Napier Johnson, DBE, FRS, died on 25 September 2012, the day before her 72nd birthday. Throughout her career Louise was a leading figure, applying an incisive physics intelligence to problems in biology. Many years later she assumed leadership roles at Oxford University and at the Diamond synchrotron in O...

Professor Dame Louise Napier Johnson (26 September 1940-25 September 2012).

The Napier Type System

Persistent programming is concerned with the construction of large and long lived systems of data. In designing and building persistent object systems, we are attempting to regularise the activities that are performed on data by programming languages, operating systems, database management systems and file systems. We have identified the following areas of research which we are investigating in...

Dr. L. Everard Napier

Lord Napier on Jail Sanitation

Tub late Governor of Madras is reported to have spoken as follows in tlie public health section of the Social Science Association :?" While 1 was in India there were about eight thousand prisoners in the Presidency of Madras, and a plan being laid down for tlie improvement of the jail accommodation, it became my duty to prosecute that plan with all the energy and vigour I could. We commenced by...