Michael Woolfson
Michael Mark Woolfson (9 January 1927[1] – 23 December 2019[2]) was a British physicist and planetary scientist.His research interests were in the fields of x-ray crystallography, biophysics, colour vision and the formation of stars and planets.He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford and received his PhD from UMIST, where he was supervised by Henry Lipson.In November 1991, the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) set up a panel, which was chaired by Woolfson, to review synchrotron facilities in the UK.[6] He published papers and books on the subjects of x-ray crystallography, materials science, planet formation, mathematics, imaging, time, probability&statistics, colour vision and astrophysics.