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In Memoriam

This area contains brief obituaries of SPA members who have passed on.

Prof. Heather Couper CBE (1949–2020)

Leslie Green (1931-2018)

E J (Jim) Hysom (1933–2017)

Dr Ron Maddison (1935–2019)

Dr Helen Walker, (1953-2017) (link to 128 kb PDF)

 

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