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...University before studying the porosity of coal for her PhD. Her work was important as it was performed during wartime and it helped predict the properties of carbon based materials used for fuel and in devices such as gas masks. However, she is better known for performing much of the pioneering X-ray crystallography that helped determine the structure of DNA. An X-ray...

...University academics. Follow his journey around the world and check out insights from our OU academics along each step of his journey. Here is Antoine Cousot’s boat in build... [Antoine's old boat] The old boat [Antoine's boat at Falmouth] The new boat Two of our academics in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Pallavi Anand and Luke Mander have...

...University. The theme of this year’s Global Handwashing Day is “Clean hands are within reach”. Changes in handwashing behavior are often temporary; think how often a small child has to be reminded to wash their hands, but for handwashing to be effective it must be practiced regularly. There are many difficulties in establishing handwashing behavior as a habit...