Alan Kenneth Soper was born on 1951 and FRS is an STFC Senior Fellow at the ISIS neutron source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
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10 Facts About Alan Soper
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Alan Soper was educated at the Campion School, Hornchurch and the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD in 1977 for research into the structure of aqueous solutions conducted at the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble supervised by John Enderby.
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Alan Soper was chair of the prestigious Gordon Research Conference on Water and Aqueous Solutions in 2008 and is the co-designer of the Near and InterMediate Range Order Diffractometer instrument on the ISIS neutron source.
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Alan Soper is a world expert in the structure of water and water-based solutions at the molecular level.
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Alan Soper's work has relevance given the importance of water in the biochemical processes of living organisms.
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Alan Soper has characterised the structure of water under extreme conditions – as found miles down at the bottom of the ocean – and in heavily confined water such as occurs in nanoscopic mineral cavities.
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Alan Soper has observed that this water is likely to be under significant tension – about -1000 atmospheres.
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Alan Soper is distinguished as the world leading experimentalist on the structure of water and aqueous solutions, and an internationally outstanding expert on the structure of liquids in general.
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Alan Soper has pioneered the wider use of computer simulation as a tool for building three-dimensional models of the disordered states of matter based on measured data.
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Alan Soper was made an ISIS neutron source senior research fellow in 2009.
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