Contents

Introduction


Part I

Some Dates

Finance

Administration

The Workshops

Early Days

Early Kinetics

Reaction Kinetics: Gas Phase

Kinetics in Solution

Chemical Kinetics and Bacterial Growth

Energy Transfer

Photochemistry

Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure

Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Molecular Physics of Ions and Ionization

Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Note on Departmental Computers

Theoretical Chemistry

Computer-Aided Molecular Design

The Oxford Hyperbaric Group

Electrochemistry and Solution Kinetics

Surface Chemistry

The Output

Teaching

Visitors


Part II

Prehistory

The building

Firewatching

Completion

Occupation

War work

Miss Binnie

The Opening

Research work

Doug Cook

Appointments

The first extension

The second extensions

Practical examinations

Dr Lee's Professors

Retrospect


Part III

The Laboratory, 1991-2000


Appendix