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James Stewart Parker (20 October 1941 – 2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright. Biography He was born in Sydenham, Belfast, of a Protestant working-class family. His birthplace is marked by an Ulster History Circle blue plaque. While still in his teens, he contracted bone cancer and had a leg amputated. He studied for an MA in Poetic Drama at Queen's University, Belfast, on a scholarship, before commencing teaching in the United States at Hamilton College (New York), Hamilton College and Cornell University. Parker was a member of a group of young writers that included Seamus Heaney and Bernard MacLaverty in the early 1960s at Queen's University in Belfast. In ''British Poetry since 1945'', Edward Lucie-Smith calls him "a rawer, rougher, more unformed poet than either of the other two Belfast poets presented here" (i.e. Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon). He notes that all three are post-Movement and neo-Georgian, owing little to William Butler Yeats and not mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Parker (scientist)
Stewart F. Parker is a British scientist specialising in vibrational spectroscopy and catalysis. He works at the ISIS neutron source and is an Honorary Professor in the school of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Career Parker gained his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara following this with postdoctoral research at the University of East Anglia. He worked for the Analytical Division of the Sunbury Research Centre before moving to the ISIS Facility in 1993. He has an Individual Merit award from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, which was renewed in 2019. Select publications *Parker, S. F. Horton, K. E. and Tomkinson, J. 1995. ''The TFXA user guide''. Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Council. *Mitchell, P. C. H, Parker, S. F., Ramirez-Cuesta, J. and Tomkinson, J. 2005. ''Vibrational Spectroscopy with Neutrons With Applications in Chemistry, Biology, Materials Science and Catalysis'' (Series on Neutron Techniques and Application ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |