Biomagnetism and Magnetic Biosystems Based on Molecular Recognition Processes: Sant Feliu De Guixols, Spain, 22-27 September 2007

Tony was born in Canada but brought up in Middlesborough, UK. In 1977 he came up to Selwyn College, Cambridge, to read natural sciences which he finished in 1980 with a first class honours degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics. During this period he was awarded several College prizes. In 1979 he also went to the Institut Laue-Langevin, in Grenoble, France, to carry out his final year project. This involved the development of a new polarizing monochromator for neutrons upon completion of which he became one of the pioneers of the polarized neutron reflection, important for establishing the magnetic structure of surfaces and multilayers.