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Emsley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Clive Emsley (born 1944), British historian and criminologist * Evangeline Lydia Emsley (1885–1967), Canadian nurse *John Emsley, British writer, broadcaster and academic specialising in chemistry *Lyndon Emsley (born 1964), British chemist * Paul Emsley (born 1947), South African painter now resident in Wiltshire, England *Richard Emsley (born 1951), British composer from Goole, Yorkshire See also *Emsley A. Laney High School Emsley A. Laney High School is a public high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. The school was named after Emsley Armfield Laney, a business and community leader for several decades in Wilmington. It is a part of New Hanover ...
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Clive Emsley
Clive Emsley (4 August 1944 – 5 October 2020) was a British historian and criminologist. He was a research director and lecturer at the Open University. Biography After his first degree at the University of York, where he was one of the initial intake of 150 undergraduates, he did research at Peterhouse, Cambridge, into the maintenance of public order in England during the French Revolution. At this point he had to make a career decision, having been a prominent member of the National Youth Theatre as an actor during his time at university. He played the part of Enobarbus (cf Rob Wilton's Theatricalia programme) in a celebrated production of 'Anthony and Cleopatra', with Helen Mirren as Cleopatra, and as a result was offered professional roles. However, he decided to stay in academia and refused the chance to become an actor though he kept his association with the National Youth Theatre during summer stints as an associate director, including 'Julius Caesar' which played in ...
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Evangeline Lydia Emsley
Evangeline Lydia Emsley ARRC (March 1885 – February 21, 1967), sometimes written as Lydia Evangeline Emsley, was a Canadian nurse who was decorated for her service as a member of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. Early life Evangeline Emsley was born in Lindsay, Ontario, the daughter of Rev. William Henry Emsley and Susan A. Major Emsley. Her father was a Methodist pastor and military chaplain from Barnsley, in Yorkshire. She trained as a nurse at Columbia Hospital in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1909."From the War Zone: A Distinguished Nursing Sister"
''Trained Nurse and Hospital Review'' (October 1916): 211-212.


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John Emsley
John Emsley (born 1938) is a UK popular science writer, broadcaster and academic specialising in chemistry. He researched and lectured at King's College London for 25 years, authoring or co-authoring about 100 papers, and then became Science Writer in Residence at Imperial College London in 1990. From 1997 to 2002 he was Science Writer in Residence at the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, England, during which time he started and wrote the newsletter Chem@Cam. He is the author of more than 12 books and several of them have been translated into other languages. Newspaper column For six years Emsley wrote a column on chemistry for the ''Independent'' called "Molecule of the Month". Books Emsley's published books include: *''More Molecules of Murder'', (London): Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017. *''Chemhistory'', Witley Press, 2017. *''Chemistry at Home. Exploring the Ingredient in Everyday Products'', Cambridge UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015. *''Elements of Fo ...
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Lyndon Emsley
David Lyndon Emsley FRSC (born 29 November 1964) is a British chemist specialising in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). He was awarded the 2012 Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the French Académie des Sciences and the 2015 Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was an editorial board member of the journal ''Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry'' from 2008–10. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ''ChemPhysChem'' and '' Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance''. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Birth and education Emsley is the son of professor James Emsley, of the University of Southampton. The younger Emsley received his Master of Science in chemistry from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1986 and received his Ph.D. from the Université de Lausanne in 1991 under the direction of Geoffrey Bodenhausen working with N ...
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Paul Emsley
Paul Emsley (born 25 August 1947) is a British artist who worked in South Africa until 1996 and is now resident in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England. He is a former lecturer at the Stellenbosch University and the 2007 winner of the BP Portrait Award for portrait painting. His work can be found in most public collections in South Africa, The National Portrait Gallery London and The British Museum. He is known for his large detailed images of people, animals and flowers. There was a major retrospective of his work in 2012 at the Sasol Art Gallery in Stellenbosch. He is represented in the UK by the Redfern Gallery and in South Africa by Everard Read. Emsley's portrait of the Princess of Wales is on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Other notable portraits include Nelson Mandela, Sir V. S. Naipaul, Michael Simpson and William Kentridge William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and a ...
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Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley (born December 1951 in Goole, Yorkshire) is a British composer, sometimes associated with the New Complexity school. Emsley initially studied with Arnold Whittall at University College, Cardiff, after which he moved to London, where he still lives. He attended Peter Maxwell Davies' composition classes at the Dartington Summer School of Music, and co-founded the Cardiff Composers' Ensemble while a student there. In the 1970s he co-founded, with James Clarke, the ensemble Suoraan, which specialised in performances of music by contemporary composers, including Iannis Xenakis, Michael Finnissy and James Dillon. In 2002, Métier released a CD of Emsley's music, entitled '' Flowforms''. In addition to composing, Emsley works as a music engraver. He was the first ever user of the notation software Sibelius, having tested it extensively before it was released, and engraved the first score published using Sibelius: ''Antara'' by George Benjamin (published by Faber Music ...
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