Dedication: Professor Roy Luigi Johnston

Abstract

Roy Johnston received his BA (1983) and D.Phil. (1986) from the University of Oxford, where he was a member of St. Catherine’s College. His D.Phil., on theoretical aspects of cluster molecules, was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Mike Mingos, FRS. From 1987 to 1989, he was a SERC/NATO postdoctoral fellow in the USA, spending a year each at Cornell University, working with one of us (Roald Hoffmann) on theoretical solid state chemistry and the University of Arizona, working with Prof. Dennis Lichtenberger on gas phase and surface photoelectron spectroscopy.