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David Leigh (other)
David Leigh may refer to: * David Leigh (journalist) (born 1946), British journalist and writer * David Leigh (swimmer) (born 1956), British former swimmer * David Leigh (scientist) (born 1963), professor of organic chemistry See also * * David Lee (other) {{hndis, Leigh, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leigh (journalist)
David Leigh is a British journalist and writer who was the investigations editor of ''The Guardian'' and is the author of ''Investigative Journalism: a survival guide''. He officially retired in April 2013, although Leigh continued his association with the newspaper. In 1977 Leigh exposed to the public the existence of the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret British government propaganda department and one of the largest covert anti-communist propaganda organisations in history. This expose led to further discoveries including the existence of Orwell's list, smear attacks against British trade unionists, and British propaganda operations in Korea, India, Malaya, Cyprus and Ireland. Career Educated at Nottingham High School and King's College, Cambridge, leaving with a postgraduate degree in 1969. He is an investigative journalist who received the first of several British Press Awards in 1979 for an exposure of jury-vetting. He was a journalist for the ''Scotsman'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leigh (swimmer)
David William Leigh (born 22 December 1956) is an English former competitive swimmer. Swimming career Leigh represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. He competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Representing England he also competed at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games at Christchurch, New Zealand, where he beat David Wilkie to the gold medal in the 100 metres breaststroke. He also won a silver medal in the 200 metres breaststroke and a bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ... in the medley relay. At the ASA National British Championships he won the 100 metres breaststroke title in 1975. See also * List of Commonwealth Games meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leigh (scientist)
David Alan Leigh (born 1963) FRS FRSE FRSC is a British chemist, Royal Society Research Professor and, since 2014, the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (2001–2012) and Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Warwick (1998–2001). Education Leigh was educated at Codsall Community High School and the University of Sheffield. Career and research He is noted for the invention of fundamental methods to control molecular-level dynamics and entanglement, including strategies to construct rotaxanes, catenanes and molecular knots and some of the earliest synthetic molecular motors, molecular robots and functional nanomachines. Using mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures he prepared a novel molecular information ratchet that employs a mechanism reminiscent of Maxwell's demon (although it requires an energy i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |