Mining engineer Natural chemicals

Wilkinson, B. and Micklefield, J. (2007) Mining and engineering natural-product biosynthetic pathways. Nature Chemical Biology, 3, 379. 

E. Dendy Sloan, Jr. holds the Weaver Chair in chemical engineering and is the Director of the Center for Hydrate Research at the Colorado School of Mines, where he co-directs a group of 20 researchers on natural gas hydrates. He has three degrees in chemical engineering from Clemson University and did postdoctoral work at Rice University. Prior to coming to the Colorado School of Mines, he was a senior engineer with E.I. DuPont deNemours, Inc. 

Academic achievement came natural to Ted Bourne, and he must have received a Form Prize every year he was at school. His particular interest in chemistry was fostered by his chemistry master, Tom W. Kirkwood, better known as Twink, who was a much-loved character. The stimulus on a schoolboy in a place like Cannock to turn to the physical sciences, especially chemistry, probably came not so much from the proximity of coal-mining and iron-founding as from the ceramics of the Potteries and the chemical and heavy engineering industries of the Black Country. Although he was successful in all subjects except art, Bourne was as unassuming, and consequently as popular, then as he was to be when he had risen to an influential position later in life. 

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