Ras Raval
11-11 2020 11:30
wrote:
I had the pleasure to get to know Chris as part of the Marie Curie CHEXTAN Network on Chirality, led by David Amabilino. CHEXTAN meetings were exuberant, inspiring and free thinking, across scientific and national boundaries. Many of the ideas blossomed into new science platforms. During this time, I came to genuinely like and admire Chris. His decency and empathy, combined with his scientific and innovation prowess, made him a very special human being, scientist and colleague. At the 2007 Nanotech Insight Conference in Luxor, I met Katherine. We all discussed science during the day and, in the warm evenings, we discussed the world and our lives by the Nile. Chris talked about the raised beds he had made in the garden for Katherine. He encouraged me to run, citing inspirational stories of others, but this was to be one of his rare failed ventures.
We shall remember him as a special person and a rare scientist. Our thoughts are with Katherine, Daniel and Chris’ friends and family.
Ras Raval, Liverpool
Ras Raval
11-11 2020 11:30
wrote:
I had the pleasure to get to know Chris as part of the Marie Curie CHEXTAN Network on Chirality, led by David Amabilino. CHEXTAN meetings were exuberant, inspiring and free thinking, across scientific and national boundaries. Many of the ideas blossomed into new science platforms. During this time, I came to genuinely like and admire Chris. His decency and empathy, combined with his scientific and innovation prowess, made him a very special human being, scientist and colleague. At the 2007 Nanotech Insight Conference in Luxor, I met Katherine. We all discussed science during the day and, in the warm evenings, we discussed the world and our lives by the Nile. Chris talked about the raised beds he had made in the garden for Katherine. He encouraged me to run, citing inspirational stories of others, but this was to be one of his rare failed ventures.
We shall remember him as a special person and a rare scientist. Our thoughts are with Katherine, Daniel and Chris’ friends and family.
Ras Raval, Liverpool
