John Sherwood

John Neil to Lily (née Rose) and William Sherwood, who taught French.

In 1960, he joined the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow – from 1964, part of the University of Strathclyde – where he was lecturer and then professor of chemistry (from 1977). He served as dean of the faculty of science, and the university's deputy principal and vice-principal (from 1994). He retired in 2002,

His research was into organic crystals, particularly their growth and the effects of imperfections. He grew large high-purity crystals of various compounds, and established a research centre at Strathclyde, the first to research growth of organic crystals. Some of his research had industrial applications, including preventing fuels from crystallising at low temperatures, ensuring the safety of explosives, and researching novel fibre-optics for use in communications. and was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He died on 4 December 2020, at the age of 87.

Selected publicationsBooksSource: David Pugh, Kevin J. Roberts, John N. Sherwood (eds). Crystal Growth of Organic Materials (Institute of Physics, 1993) John N. Sherwood (ed.). Structure of Surfaces and Interfaces as Studied Using Synchrotron Radiation (Royal Society of Chemistry; 1990) John N. Sherwood (ed.). The Plastically Crystalline State: Orientationally-disordered Crystals (J. Wiley & Sons; 1979) John Neil Sherwood (ed.). Diffusion processes: Proceedings of the Thomas Graham Memorial Symposium, University of Strathclyde (Gordon and Breach; 1971) George Murray Burnett, John Neil Sherwood, Alastair M. North (eds). Transfer and Storage of Energy by Molecules Volume 4 (Wiley-Interscience; 1969) Research articles'''