Society 1975 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1994 Awarded Honorary DSc, University of Exeter 1996 Elected Foreign Associate of the Royal Society of South Africa 1997 Awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society 2002 Awarded honorary life membership, British Crystallographic Association 2005 Awarded the Ernst Mach Honorary Medal by the Czech Academy of Sciences External positions held Chairman of the American Crystallographic Association Apparatus and Standards Sub-Committee (1957–1959) Consultant, Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory (1957–1959) Associate editor, Journal of Crystal Growth (1966–1990) Member of the UK SERC Synchrotron Radiation Facility Committee (1976–1978) References 1924 births 2008 deaths People from Lytham St Annes Fellows of the Royal Society Harvard University faculty Academics of the University of Bristol