John Paul obituary

John Paul lecturing engineering students at the Royal School of Science and Technological innovation (now the University of Strathclyde) in the early 1950s

The biomedical engineer John Paul, who has died aged 86, played a crucial role in the improvement of trustworthy complete hip substitute implants, which have improved the lives of excellent numbers of people. John produced the very first sensible estimate of the forces that act on the hip joint throughout perform this information was crucial for the design and style of secure implants and of machines to test them in the laboratory.

In the early 1960s John Charnley, an orthopaedic surgeon, introduced a metal and plastic artificial hip joint with an unnaturally tiny femoral head to decrease the result of friction, ideas incorporated into the productive joints in present use. The very first joints had a metal femoral part and a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) socket fixed to the pelvis. However the PTFE was unsatisfactory and wore out quickly. Employing ultra-substantial molecular weight polyethylene developed considerably much less wear, but numerous of the joints broke, simply because they had been made utilizing unrealistic estimates of the forces that would act on them during perform.

John set out to supply much more reliable estimates of these forces and was in a position to do so because of his deep insight into the engineering rules essential to solve the issue and his meticulous experimental perform.

The forces transmitted across the hip joint are created by the excess weight of the entire body, the accelerations of the entire body and the power in the muscle tissue that generate movement or stability. John designed and developed an instrument to measure the forces made by the body bodyweight. He obtained the accelerations from recording moving volunteers using two cine cameras at right angles. These have been digitised and then analysed.

John identified it more difficult to decide the force in each muscle that affected the joint, which remains a dilemma, but was capable to estimate the forces by grouping together muscle tissues that had a related effect. He showed that the forces on the hip were many instances better than the bodyweight of the body. The magnitude of the joint forces and their variation during walking is recognized as the Paul Cycle, which was, and is, used in the design and style of hip implants.

He was born in Sunderland, exactly where his father, William, was doing work as an engineering draughtsman. John grew up in Outdated Kilpatrick, in the west of Scotland, close to the shipyards in which his father worked, except for the second world war years, which he invested in Aberdeen with two elderly aunts. He was educated at Allan Glen’s college in Glasgow, excelling each academically and on the rugby discipline. He studied mechanical engineering at the Royal School of Science and Engineering (now the University of Strathclyde). The Royal University was unable to award degrees as it was not a university, so John had to consider his BEng finals at Glasgow University. A query came back to the university from the examiners, who asked if there was a possibility of his obtaining cheated, simply because they could not feel that an undergraduate could know so much.

In 1962 he was a founding member of the bioengineering unit at the University of Strathclyde with Robert Kenedi and Tom Gibson. I met John in 1966 when I studied for an MSc at the unit he was one of the supervisors of my analysis thesis. In 1970 I joined the workers. John was head of the unit from 1977 till he retired from the university in 1992. His published research on hip joint forces, such as his PhD thesis, are classic reference operates. With colleagues at the unit he extended his perform to the knee, ankle and elbow joints.

The bioengineering unit rapidly became an internationally popular centre of excellence and John started to travel the world to present his investigation and motivate the advancement of fledgling bioengineering centres. John was chairman of the global standard organisation committee on bone and joint replacement and the equivalent committees of the European and British common organisations. He was president of the Global Society of Biomechanics (1987-90) and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He continued these routines until just ahead of his death.

John’s popularity is based mostly on function that he initiated 50 many years ago, but which remains relevant these days. The Paul Cycle is the canonical information used for developing implants. These days implants extremely seldom break, but fail due to particles developed by dress in, which can be investigated employing joint simulators based mostly on his perform.

John’s wife, Bette, whom he married in 1956, died in 2004. He is survived by his kids, Gillian, Graham and Fiona, and 5 grandchildren.

• John Poskitt Paul, bioengineer, born 26 June 1927 died 13 November 2013

John Paul obituary

John Hughes obituary

John Hughes founded Ruskin College’s Trade Union Investigation Unit, which presented sophisticated breakdowns of the basis of workers’ shell out claims

For far more than three decades, John Hughes, who has died aged 86, was based at Ruskin College in Oxford, finishing as principal (1979-89). He place his substantial assortment of capabilities at the services of the labour motion as an modern educator, a resourceful utilized economist and an influential participant in a lot of commissions and councils on industrial matters.

John was a passionate believer in a fairer financial program. He sought greater wages and circumstances for doing work folks on the basis of reasoned argument backed up by rigorous analysis.

A prolific writer, generating the two pragmatic Fabian pamphlets and tracts for Spokesman Books on workers’ management, he succeeded as a teacher in encouraging his college students to attain far past their authentic horizons. As the leading residential labour-movement university, Ruskin took working-class students, especially trade unionists. John launched task function, set up a labour scientific studies program, and devised and taught new innovative programs for senior trade union officials.

In the 1960s, John helped the Trades Union Congress set up its yearly Financial Review, presenting an alternative viewpoint on economic approach. He was the founder of Ruskin’s Trade Union Investigation Unit, which presented sophisticated breakdowns of the basis of pay claims, in 1970. The document he created that 12 months for the Ford automobile workers’ shell out claim, linking the total financial cycle, profitability and the ability to increase wages, reportedly located a readership that for once extended to the City of London.

The guide that John edited with Roy Moore, A Particular Situation?: Social Justice and the Miners (1972), arguably represented the high-water mark of this variety of analytical perform in industrial relations. Collective bargaining, frequently tense and intensely political, also concerned real exchange of argued situations, and John created key contributions to these.

As deputy chairman of the Price Commission (1977-79), he acknowledged the effect of raging inflation by insisting on a housewife becoming appointed as an adviser. This dedication to the cause of consumers in a fairer financial technique led him to sit on the Nationwide Client Council (1982-94), and then on the Rail Passengers Council (2001-05).

In this, he was a defender of the interests of men and women like his father, a milkman, and his mom, who entered service at the age of 12. Born in London, he invested the blitz many years billeted on the south coast, exactly where he developed his lifelong passion for cycling. I don’t forget him in Edinburgh in the 1990s, carrying his bike up a lot of flights of stairs to the flat that he and his wife, Vi, shared in the Old Town.

A scholarship boy at Westminster City school, he went to Lincoln University, Oxford, and in 1948 graduated in politics and economics. In 1949 he joined the international youth brigade rebuilding the Samac-Sarajevo railway line in Yugoslavia. There he met Vi, and they married later on that yr she had sturdy Scottish roots, and he rather looser Welsh ones.

John started his profession in adult training as an extramural tutor, moving from Scunthorpe (for Hull University) to Sheffield, and then to Ruskin. Before his period as principal, he was tutor in economics and industrial relations (1957-70) and vice-principal (1970-79). In the course of the 1980s Ruskin faced challenging instances, specifically as the romantic relationship in between government and trade unions grew to become acrimonious. In 1986, a Ruskin tutor, David Selbourne, contributed a controversial political post to the Times, against the background of the dispute among the print unions and the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch. College students boycotted Selbourne’s lectures, although he maintained that Ruskin was not defending his academic freedom and at some point left. An inquiry later led to modifications in the college’s governing body and disciplinary procedures, and a new statement on academic freedom.

John and Vi, herself a literature tutor at Ruskin (1961-82), had been endlessly hospitable and intellectually curious. Family members debates involving their 4 daughters, Kirsty, Katherine, Nicola and Stella, were the two energetic and various. Vi predeceased John by two weeks, and he is survived by their daughters, four grandchildren and 4 wonderful-grandchildren.

• John Dennis Hughes, economist and instructor, born 28 January 1927 died one November 2013

John Hughes obituary

Notre Dame to remember President John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy is presented the 1961 Laetare Medal in the Oval Workplace. Attending the presentation (L-R): unidentified man Father Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., vice president of Notre Dame Rep. John Brademas, Indiana Kennedy Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of Notre Dame and two unidentified males.

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the University of Notre Dame will ring bells and supply Mass in his memory.

The bells of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart will toll in tribute to the president at two p.m. EST Friday (Nov. 22), the time of his death on Nov. 22, 1963. Masses at the Basilica at 11:30 a.m. and five:15 p.m. will be presented for justice and peace and will incorporate an intercession for him.

Notre Dame also will understand the anniversary prior to the Irish football game Saturday (Nov. 23) against Brigham Young University when the flag will be presented by G. Robert Blakey, one particular of the nation’s top authorities on the tragic events 50 many years ago. Blakey was the chief legal counsel and employees director for the U.S. Residence Select Committee on Assassinations and helped draft the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Data Assortment Act of 1992. A graduate of the University, Blakey was elevated to emeritus status a year ago following educating for far more than 35 many years in the University’s Law College.

Kennedy received Notre Dame’s highest honor, the Laetare Medal, in a White Property ceremony two many years to the day prior to his assassination. He received an honorary degree from the University in 1950.

Notre Dame to remember President John F. Kennedy

In Memoriam: Rev. John S. Dunne, C.S.C., John A. O"Brien Professor of Theology

Rev. John S. Dunne, C.S.C.

Rev. John S. Dunne, C.S.C., John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, died early Monday (Nov. 11) at Holy Cross Residence right after a prolonged struggle with issues of a head injury sustained in July. He was 83.

“On behalf of the University, I lengthen my deepest condolences to the family members and buddies of Father John S. Dunne, a beloved instructor, scholar, priest and good friend,” explained Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. “John brought humility, honesty and intellectual prowess to a quest of faith looking for comprehending, and in sharing the journey, he manufactured lasting contributions to the lives of a great number of students, colleagues, fellow religious and several readers of his books. Like several other individuals, I benefited significantly from lessons and conversations with John, and mourn his passing. He will be missed by all.”

A native of Waco, Texas, Father Dunne attended St. Edward’s Academy in Austin before coming into Holy Cross Minor Seminary at Notre Dame, exactly where he produced his first vows to the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1947. He studied philosophy and graduated from Notre Dame in 1951. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1954, in Rome, where he also earned advanced degrees from the Gregorian University.

Father Dunne returned to Notre Dame in 1957 to turn out to be one of its most well-known, even beloved, teachers. In addition to teaching much more Notre Dame college students than any other individual in the University’s historical past, he wrote some 20 influential works on theology and the spiritual lifestyle, like “The City of the Gods,” “A Search for God in Time and Memory” and “Way of All the Earth.” His most latest book, “Eternal Consciousness,” obtained a very first-spot award from the Catholic Press Association.

Gus Zuehlke, a good friend and former student, spent some time at Father Dunne’s hospital bedside and reported on his visit in a publish to Notre Dame Magazine: “As I was silently praying in John’s area, a nurse walked in and explained to me, ‘I’m on my break. Can I keep in here for a even though?’ ‘Sure,’ I replied. ‘You see,’ the nurse stated, ‘I really feel God here.’ I stated to him, ‘I recognize.’” Generations of Notre Dame students and alumni would comprehend as effectively.

Visitation will be from 3:thirty to 7 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 14) in the Lady Chapel of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, exactly where a wake service will be held at 7:thirty p.m. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 3:30 p.m. Friday (Nov. 15) in the Basilica and instantly followed by burial in the Holy Cross local community cemetery.

Memorial contributions in help of the mission and ministries of the Congregation of Holy Cross can be created to United States Province of Priests and Brothers, Office of Advancement, P.O. Box 765, Notre Dame, IN 46556-0765, or online at donate.holycrossusa.org.

In Memoriam: Rev. John S. Dunne, C.S.C., John A. O"Brien Professor of Theology

John Playfair obituary

After qualifying as a physician, John Playfair branched out into investigation on cancer and tropical medication

My father, Professor John Playfair, who has died aged 82, spent most of his doing work life as a lecturer and professor of immunology at the Middlesex hospital (later on University School hospital), the place he researched the immunology of tropical conditions including malaria. His textbooks Immunology at a Glance (1979), Infection and Immunity (1994, with Greg Bancroft) and Living With Germs (2004) are even now in use.

The son of Main Common Ian Playfair and Jocelyn (nee Malan), a novelist, John was of Scottish and French Huguenot ancestry. He was educated at Cheltenham school and studied medicine at Pembroke School, Cambridge. Right after qualifying as a medical doctor at King’s University hospital, London, in the 1950s, John worked briefly at the Marsden and Brompton hospitals and then branched out into analysis on cancer and tropical medication. He married Line Mariani in 1959 and shared a lifelong enjoy of her native Corsica, spending several happy holidays there.

He invested three years in the early 1960s at the University of California, Berkeley, and also travelled extensively with the Planet Health Organisation he visited hospitals and laboratories, and was in wonderful demand as a lecturer and external examiner.

He also wrote fiction, and his 3 early novels, Pursued by a Bear (1958), Andiamo! (1959) and The Dying Artwork (1960) were effectively received he later on wrote a number of crime novels, which will be published online. He was also a talented painter and draughtsman.

Throughout his lifestyle he played and studied the clarinet, collecting and restoring antique French clarinets and designing enhancements to the instrument, such as new keys and bore sizes. He loved playing every single member of the clarinet family and organized chamber music for a variety of wind ensembles. He wrote routinely for the magazine of the Clarinet and Saxophone Society. A lot of of his rare clarinets have been donated to the Sir Nicholas Shackleton assortment of historical instruments at Edinburgh University.

My father’s excellent sense of humour and broad assortment of interests brought him a broad circle of pals. He loved to read through, typically with a glass of pastis in hand, and he was searching forward to the arrival of his 1st wonderful-grandchild. We are planning a “clarinet fest” up coming yr for all his pals to celebrate a life complete of passion and harmony.

He is survived by Line, two children, Miranda and me, four grandchildren, Robert, Catherine, Sarah and Alice, and his brother, Man. John donated his entire body to health care analysis and asked that his ashes be scattered close to the Sanguinaires islands off Ajaccio, Corsica.

John Playfair obituary