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Dr. Mary Dawson joined ASTRA
during the Halley's Comet Watch in 1986. She had attended
the Royal Technical College in 193839, gaining the
Kinninmont Prize as best student of the year, became a
member of the Pharmaceutical society in 1943, gained the
Pereira Medal for best student for the year in Britain in
1947, and gained her PH.D. in 1954. Continuing a
distinguished career in pharmacy, when she joined ASTRA she
was astonished to learn from one of Oscar's Spacereports
about pharmaceutical processing in space, and immediately
asked me to lecture to the Pharmaceutical Society on the
subject - the first of many demanding requests for talks,
usually prompted by something in the current issue of
Nature. Having attended an international conference on
pharmaceutical processing in space, she then gave a lecture
to ASTRA on it which (needless to say) was far more
knowledgeable than mine. After retiring to Dundee for
health reasons, in 1995 Mary wrote to me to apologise for
having missed our participation in the Edinburgh
International Science Festival. Next she sent me a set of
photos of Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire, which she had found in
the family archives. I passed them on to the local paper in
Sanquhar, where my parents live, but sad to say Mary died in
December of that year before I had a reply. PAUL
GRANT
JOHN
BRUNNER/BOB SHAW
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