Professor Emeritus Robert Lancashire arrived in Jamaica from the UK on the Jamaica Producer (a "Banana Boat") in September 1979 after completing a 3 year Post Doctoral Fellowship at University College, Cardiff, The University of Wales. His Ph.D. had been completed at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He worked as a lecturer in inorganic chemistry in the Chemistry Department at The UWI, Mona and continued up the academic ranks becoming known for his interest and skill in "computational chemistry". In 1994 he established the first web site in the English speaking Caribbean at the Chemistry Department at Mona - (now the legacy site [http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm]). He ran the Open Source Java project JSpecView for the display of spectroscopic data, which in 2006 was merged with the Java/Javascript JSMol project under the lead of Prof Bob Hanson. Professor Lancashire is still closely affiliated with the Chemistry Department and wrote "The History of the Chemistry Department at UWI, Mona, Jamaica" published in 2010 with the late Professor Emeritus Kenneth E Magnus. In 2019 he and Dr Conrad Douglas authored "From Logwood to Slowpoke, a Biography of Professor Gerald Lalor" who was the first Jamaican to be appointed as Head of Chemistry at Mona and who went on to become Principal and Director General of ICENS. His interest in history extends to Jamaican scientists and he has researched and written about Edward Turner of Clarendon - first Prof of Chemistry at the University of London (1827-1837), his brother Wilton Turner who was an industrial chemist and John Buddle Blyth the first Prof of Chemistry at Queen's College, Cork, Ireland (1849-1871).
Professor Robert Lancashire
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