On 23rd January, over 200 people gathered at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to celebrate the life of Godfrey Stafford, who was Director of the laboratory from 1969 till 1981, and who died last July at the age of 93.
Godfrey Stafford was one of the leaders in the creation of the laboratory, and in the diversification of its role to meet the evolving needs of Big Science. He worked in partnership with other directors in the interests of laboratories round the world, including CERN, where he was highly regarded and held several important positions, including chair of the Scientific Policy Committee (1978-1980). His obituary was published in the November 2013 issue of the CERN Courier.
During this celebratory event, speakers described the evolution of several of the scientific areas that have grown and flourished at RAL since the pioneering work of Stafford and his colleagues, notably particle physics, science with high power lasers, renewable energy, space science and technology, and science with beams of neutrons and x-rays.
A video of each contribution has now been reloaded: smaller files and significantly improved start-up.
Also a video of each contribution may be viewed in streaming mode from https://sas.stfc.ac.uk/vportal. (Under the Categories ‘side-bar’ select STFC Public Lectures and then The Legacy of Godfrey Stafford. Full-screen mode and resolution can be selected at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen.)
GUIDANCE NOTES
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Please note that the videos of talks with slides play as a small movie frame above a large slides frame, and these sizes are not adjustable. However, for the talks without slides (Paul Williams' talk and the audience contributions) we now have a full-frame movie of the speakers.
Note that Richard Holdaway's slides were uploaded in two parts. Click on the arrow next to PDF or PPT, then select the part to be displayed.
