About the Speaker: Joseph R Riley
Was born on 13th October, 1940, and lived in Buxton, Derbyshire. He studied at Buxton College G.C., and then read Physics at Wadham College, Oxford. He next taught Year 1 Physics at the Middle East Technical University (M.E.T.U.), Ankara, Turkey, returning to the UK at the end of the year. He then registered to study for a D.Phil. at Oxford, while working as a Senior Research Fellow on “Non-linear effects at microwave frequencies in the plasmas of mercury vapour positive columns” at the Royal Military College of Science, (RMCS), Shrivenham. In 1970 he left Shrivenham to join the Centre for Overseas Pest Research, and apart from a year spent in the USA working as a National Academy of Sciences Senior Research Associate at Wallops Island, Virginia, he worked for them until he retired in 2000.
