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played a key role in the development of facilities for teaching and research in chemistry, He was much involved in the planning of new buildings; and at Bradford he also pioneered chemistry courses which included periods spent in both British and European industrial laboratories.
Derek Long was Founding Editor (with Harold Bernstein) of the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy in 1973. The Journal was originally published bimonthly, but has been published monthly since 1989. The Journal has been very successful as a vehicle for the promotion of original research in Raman spectroscopy and its applications and currently has about lo00 pages per annum of original papers. He is now Editor-in-Chief and interests himself in all aspects of the Journal, including the cover design (readers note the new cover for 1995!), the creation of the distinguished international Editorial Advisory Board not to mention the introduction of IUPAC conventions.
The establishment of the highly successful series of International Conferences on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) has owed much to his vision and these biennial Conferences continue to promote Raman spectroscopy in all its diverse forms. Following ICORS I in Ottawa in 1969, he was Chairman of ICORS I1 in Oxford in 1970 and is now the most senior member of the International Steering Committee and Trustee of the Travel Grant Fund. His dedicated work over 25 years of ICORS organization was acknowledged by the presentation of a testimonial at ICORS XIV in Hong Kong in August 1994. Derek Long is one of the few Raman spectroscopists who have attended every ICORS meeting to date.
It now seems almost a tradition to have Derek Long give the after dinner speech at Conference Banquets. Recently, he has provided Conference delegates with displays of historical material dealing with the early, formative years of Raman spectroscopy and the scientific personalities of that period.
He has been much sought after for teaching and lecturing at NATO Schools on Spectroscopy; he was co-director with Wolfgang Kiefer of the successful NATO School on "on-Linear Raman Spectroscopy and its Chemical Applications' at Bad Windsheim, Germany in 1982. He has undertaken British Council lecture tours in Italy, Spain, Poland, Portugal, India and the former Yugoslavia. Derek Long's ambition to make expensive equipment more widely accessible through the creation of a European facility for research in non-linear Raman spectroscopy was to some extent fulfilled by a collaboration with Professor Califano and others in the founding of the Laboratorie Europe0 di Non-Lineari !&ettroscopie (LENS) sited in the grounds of Galileo's villa at Arcetri, Florence. He served as Secretary and Vice-chairman of the International Planning Committee from 1986 to 1992. In this period he saw the laboratory built and equipped with state-of the-art laser facilities and plans formulated for further development. His flair for detail, alluded to earlier, resulted in a most striking cover design for the LENS brochure commissioned to launch the new laboratory facility.
The award of the degree of Docteur 6s Sciences, Honoris Causa, by the University of Reims, France and his election as Socio Straniero (Foreign Member) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei of Rome, Europe's oldest learned society, testify to his international standing. Derek Long's scientific work has covered a number of topics and has resulted in nearly 200 original scientific papers. In the course of this work 67 students obtained their D. Phil or Ph.D. degrees under his supervision. His main areas of research are given below together with a representative selection of his papers.
Relative intensities in the Raman spectra of some Group IV tetrahalides.
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