- Peter Murray-Rust
Peter Murray-Rust is a contemporary chemist born in
Guildford in 1941.He was educated atBootham School andBalliol College . After obtaining a D.Phil he became lecturer in chemistry at the (new)University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Residence. In 1982 he moved toGlaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics, Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination. He was Professor ofPharmacy in theUniversity of Nottingham from 1996-2000, setting up the Virtual School of Molecular Sciences. He is now Reader in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow ofChurchill College .His interests have involved the automated analysis of data in scientific publications, creation of virtual communities e.g. The Virtual School of Natural Sciences in the
Globewide Network Academy and theSemantic Web . WithHenry Rzepa he has extended this to chemistry through the development ofMarkup language s, especiallyChemical Markup Language .References
* [http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/staff/pm.html Homepage]
* [http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/ Peter Murray-Rust's blog]
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