Organization:British Crystallographic Association
| Abbreviation | BCA |
|---|---|
| Formation | April 1982 |
| Type | Learned society |
| Registration no. | 284718 (England & Wales) |
| Legal status | Active |
| Location |
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Membership | >600 |
President | Alexandra Gibbs[1] |
| Affiliations | International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry |
Revenue | £117,909 (2024)[2] |
| Website | www |
The British Crystallographic Association (BCA) is an organisation for crystallography in the United Kingdom. It acts as the United Kingdom Adhering Body to the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).[3] The association is multidisciplinary and supports research and teaching in chemistry, physics, biology and materials science, in both academia and industry.[4]
The Association administers a Dorothy Hodgkin Prize and an Arnold Beevers Bursary Fund.[5]
History
Before the society was formed, British researchers in the field were divided between the X-ray Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics and the Chemical Crystallography Group of the Chemical Society (now the Royal Society of Chemistry).[6]: 178–179 To address this separation, an impromptu working group was set up in 1979 to consider the establishment of a single unified association, followed by a 1980 working party with David Blow as chair and Stephen Wallwork as secretary.[6]: 181–183 [7]: 16, 29–30 These discussions ultimately led to the founding of the BCA in 1982.[8][9]
See also
References
- ↑ "BCA Council Members". British Crystallographic Association. https://www.crystallography.org.uk/about/council/.
- ↑ "Charity 284718: British Crystallographic Association". Charity Commission for England and Wales. https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/284718.
- ↑ "United Kingdom". International Union of Crystallography. https://www.iucr.org/world/gb. "Lists the British Crystallographic Association as the Adhering Body representing the United Kingdom in the IUCr."
- ↑ "About the BCA". https://www.crystallography.org.uk/about.
- ↑ "Arnold Beevers Bursary Fund deadline". British Crystallographic Association. http://crystallography.org.uk/arnold-beevers-bursary-fund-deadline/. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Blow, David M.; Wallwork, Stephen C. (2004). "Prehistory of the British Crystallographic Association". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 58 (2): 177–186. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2004.0054. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2004.0054.
- ↑ Henderson, R.; Franks, N. P. (2009). "David Mervyn Blow. 27 June 1931 – 8 June 2004". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 55: 13–35. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2008.0022.
- ↑ "Obituary: David Blow". The Guardian. 26 June 2004. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/25/guardianobituaries.obituaries.
- ↑ "Stephen C. Wallwork: 1925-2019". Crystallography News (149): 24. June 2019. ISSN 1467-2790. https://www.crystallography.org.uk/assets/pdf/crystallography-news/2019-06.pdf#page=28.
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