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Re: Dick Sillitto's 80th birthday     Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:31:02 +0000 (GMT)     Alan F Murray@ee.ed.ac.uk     sillitto

Dick is 80?!?! Good grief!  I remember him (and Winifred, of course) well from my time in Physics (undergrad 1971-75, then postgrad 1975-78).  He was partly responsible for my initial direction as an academic.   Roger Cowley caused my fascination with condensed matter  and Dick fired me up about Optics.  The result was a foray into Raman Spectroscopy. Eventually, I had to jump ship into Electronics to get a job(!), bidding Physics a fond farewell in the early 1980s.

Please pass on my love and greetings to both Dick and Winifred.

Alan Murray

Professor Alan F Murray, FRSE,
Head of the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems,
School of Engineering and Electronics,
University of Edinburgh