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□ Overview □ AARSETH, Sverre Johannes □ ASHFORD, John et al □ BLACK, Paul and OGBORN, Jon □ BUCHHOLDT, Hans Anchor □ BUSHBY, Fred □ COLIN, Andrew □ DELVES, Mike □ DORMAND, John □ EILBECK, Chris □ GALLAHER, Donald Frederick □ GERRATT, Joe □ HARRIS, Robin et al □ HIRST, David and LININGTON, Mary □ HODGSON, Peter □ HUGHES, Arthur □ KITCHING, Alan □ LE GRICE, Malcolm □ MUSTOE, Les □ PETO, Richard and PIKE, Malcolm □ PLATTS, Jim □ PRITCHETT, Tony □ REID, John □ ROBERTS, Gareth and POLANCO, J □ SABIR, A et al □ STOCKER, Peter □ SUTCLIFFE, Brian □ TOBGY, Ahmed □ WEBB, TG □ WINTERBONE, Desmond □ WYMER, Clifford □ Crystallographers

T G Webb, Queen's University of Belfast

T G Webb, in conjunction with Phil Burke, was a significant user of the Chilton Atlas in 1970. Phil Burke was at Harwell before being appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics at Queen's University of Belfast in 1967, where he led research in theoretical atomic, molecular and optical physics. T G Webb arrived at much the same time from the USA.

In the period 1968-1971 many of the people in Phil Burke's group made use of the Chilton Atlas often using already developed computer programs.

Donald Gallaher and T G Webb were the most prolific. Webb had experience of generating computer codes from his previous employment in the USA.

A major, often quoted, paper from that activity was Electron scattering by atomic hydrogen using a pseudostate expansion. III. Excitation of 2s and 2p states at intermediate energies by P.G.Burke and T.G.Webb in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, Volume 3, Number 11 (1970).

Phil Burke became a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society and the European Physical Society.

Phil Burke served on the Atlas Computer Committee from 1972 where the discussions concerning the replacement for the Chilton Atlas was under discussion. He chaired a working party to estimate the future computational requirements for science research. The Panel was convinced that there was a continuing need for the role of the Atlas Computer Laboratory, under circumstances which were quite different from those obtaining when the Laboratory had first been set up. The report emphasised the important role that vector(array) processors would play in the future.

The decision taken by SERC was that a substantial part of the computing now carried out at the Atlas Computer Laboratory to advance a wide range of sciences will be transferred to the Daresbury Laboratory where it will support a growing variety of work outside the field of high energy physics. After the retirement of Dr Howlett later this year, Dr Stafford will become Site Director responsible for all the Council's activities at Chilton.

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