Griffiths, Lord

Griffiths G, Garrone B, Deacon E, Owen P, Pongracz J, Mead G, Bradwell A, Watters D, Lord J (1996) The polyether bistratene A activates protein kinase C-delta and induces growth arrest in HL60 cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 222 802-808... 

Inherent barriers to the production and widespread use of the formalin-inactivated toxoid, including local reactogenicity, the potential for reversion, and expectations of a difficult manufacturing process, have led to an ongoing interest in development of improved ricin vaccines (Lord et al., 1987 Lemley and Wright, 1992 Lemley and Creasia, 1995 Griffiths et al., 1999 Smallshaw et al., 2002 Marsden et al., 2004 Olson et al., 2004). 

For several decades before its application to chemical analysis, mass spectrometry was a major tool in fundamental physics. The invention of mass spectrometry is usually attributed to Joseph John Thomson, no relative to William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) whose picture appears above. In 1897 J.J. Thomson measured the ratio of the charge of an electron to its mass, thus confirming for the first time that this then-mysterious entity possessed properties characteristic of a particle. (It is interesting that his son G.P. Thomson later emulated his father by winning a Nobel Prize, but for demonstrating that the electron also possesses properties characteristic of a wave ). An account of the life and work of J.J. Thomson was published (Griffiths 1997) to commemorate the centenary of the first measurement of mass-to-charge of an elementary particle. 

During the period that the course has been offered at Bowdoin, the staff has been saddened by the deaths of EUis Lippincott, Lionel Bellamy, Professor Lord, and Harry Willis. Fortunately Drs. Robert Hannah, Jeanette Grasselli, Peter Griffiths, James de Haseth, and Bruce Chase have been excellent replacements. 

Lord Griffiths, quoting an earlier decision, endorsed the principle that arrest did not depend merely on the legality of the act but on the fact whether the person arrested had been deprived of his liberty. His Lordship went on address the decision in Christy v. Leachinsky and noted ... 

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