Found Deceased Canada - Lachlan Cranswick, 41, Deep River near Ottawa ON, 18 Jan 2010 - #6

[dotr]

Thinking of Lachlan and his family this week..

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[gogrannypop]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/347955388953/

They named a mineral after Lachlan, He has touched many people. <3

 

[Chorley8]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2013/06/19/20911031.html

"TOKYO – High levels of a toxic substance called strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said on Wednesday.

Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons, according to the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The discovery of rising levels of such radioactive material is likely to complicate efforts by the utility, Tokyo Electric Power Co, to get approval to release what it describes as water contaminated with low levels of radiation into the Pacific Ocean"

It is worth doing a 2014 google search update on Fukushima much new stuff all of it unbelievably depressing. I don't understand why this is not more of an international effort.

 

[dotr]

Thinking of Lachlan today and wishing all the best for his friends and family.

 

[dotr]

The invisible man ...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/nov/08/china-art#/?picture=421970199&index=6


"Liu Bolin, invisible man &#8211; in pictures
Liu from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how impossible the task might seem. Standing silently in strange locations around the world, the 39-year-old artist uses himself as a blank canvas."

 

[Mole]

Just a brief comment about the Dr. In front of Lachlan's name. He did consider a PhD at Monash in chemistry but did not pursue it. Although he held post-doc positions, he did not have a doctorate. The frequent referenced to Dr. were a misunderstanding of his middle names, Michael David (MD). We often make the assumption that MD means Doctor of Medicine!

Book listed at Amazon:

Principles and Applications of Powder Diffraction [Hardcover]
Abraham Clearfield (Editor), Joseph Reibenspies (Editor), Nattamai Bhuvanesh (Editor) Published 2008

Principles and Applications of Powder Diffraction: Abraham Clearfield, Joseph Reibenspies, Nattamai Bhuvanesh: 9781405162227: Amazon.com: Books


Contributors to the book:

Dr Lachlan Cranswick
Dr Natammai Bhuvanesh
Dr Karen Chapman
Dr Peter Chupas
Professor Abraham Clearfiled
Dr James Kadak
Dr Arnt Kern
Dr Armel LeBail
Dr Lyndon Mitchell

I noted that Lachlan's name is preceded by the designator, Dr.
I also noted that Lachlan's name is listed first and not in alphabetical order as the 11 other contributors' names are given.

I am very glad that these three editors recognized Lachlan's expertise in his field in this manner while he was alive to know it.

dd2

 

[Mole]

FYI
John a Root is still involved with Deep River. Ian has now moved to Austria. To be fair, there are many big hitters still involved with the NRC.

Also Lachlan's brother, Noel and his family visited DR last December for a few days. They skied out to where Lachlan's body was found and caught up with a few of Lachlan's friends. They did not seem to have anything new to add to what is known about Lachlan.

I'm confused: Are Ian Swainson and John Root still part of NRC, or employed by the U of S, or members of a private corporation called The Fedoruk Centre ??

Another thought: With the 3 heaviest hitters, Lachlan , Ian and John Root, gone from the Neutron Beam Centre at CRL - who is minding the store?

dd2

 

[Mole]

Lachlan - Happy 46th Birthday for Monday

 

[Mole]

5 years since Lachlan disappeared on 18 January 2010

http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/update.html

 

[dotr]

5 years since Lachlan disappeared on 18 January 2010

http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/update.html

Lachlan has not been forgotten, thinking of him and his family today. Hard to believe it has been 5 years since the world has been deprived of this special man.

"A new mineral species named "cranswickite".

The International Mineralogical Association has recognized a new mineral species and approved that it be named "cranswickite".
Cranswickite is a new mineral of composition MgSO4.4(H2O) from Calingasta, Argentina (IMA2010-016)."

 

[tarabull]

Well said dotr the world has truly been deprived of this special man!

5 years = too many!

I think of you whenever I am beneath the sky Lachlan, no matter the colour! Never doubt, YOU are thought of often & will never ever be forgotten!

Clearly, a gem of a man!

Gone far too soon from this earth!

 

[Mole]

Happy Birthday Lachlan

 

[Mole]

Happy Birthday Lachlan

 

[Mole]

Lachlan,
You went missing 7 years ago today, 18 January 2010.
Gone but not forgotten.

 

[dotr]

Special human being.
http://www.iucr.org/resources/nexus

Lachlan Cranswick (1968-2010) was well known to members of many communities within the structural sciences, including powder diffractionists, crystallographic computer scientists, and educationalists. He was an extraordinarily enthusiastic proponent of the free exchange of information, and an inveterate cataloguer, collector and disseminator of information, software and teaching resources.

In the late 1990s Lachlan began to create CD-ROMs containing collections of useful crystallographic and other software (one of his projects involved software from current 'artificial life' projects). These were sent to individual crystallographers he knew who had limited or no Internet access - usually, but not invariably, in developing countries.

 

[dotr]

Aug 17 2017
https://www.mindat.org/min-40267.html
Photos of Cranswickite (3)
Cranswickite

Calingasta, Calingasta Department, San Juan, Argentina

Cranswickite

Calingasta, Calingasta Department, San Juan, Argentina

Cranswickite

Sulfacor mines, Sierra del Tontal, Calingasta, Calingasta Department, San Juan, Argentina

Formula:MgSO[SUB]4[/SUB] · 4H[SUB]2[/SUB]O

Crystal System:Monoclinic

Name:The name is in honour of Lachlan M.D. Cranswick (1968&#8211;2010) who helped to develop and maintain the Collaborative Computational Project No. 14 in Powder and Small Molecule Single Crystal Diffraction (CCP14). Lachlan was expert in powder X-ray and neutron diffraction using the Rietveld method. http://journals.iucr.org/j/issues/2010/05/01/es0383/index.html

Type Locality:&#9432; Calingasta, Calingasta Department, San Juan, Argentina

Dimorph of:Starkeyite
Place of Conservation of Type Material:


Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, accession number 55368

 

[dotr]

Seems appropriate to post this on Lachlan's thread.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can...-being-turned-off-for-good-tomorrow-1.4595836
March 30 2018

[h=1]A relic of Canada's atom age, the NRU reactor is shutting down for good[/h][h=2]Chalk River is taking nuclear research in new directions. Anyone in the market for a portable reactor?[/h]

On March 31, a little-known part of Canada's nuclear history will go dark for the last time.

The National Research Universal Reactor &#8212; or NRU &#8212; at Chalk River, Ontario will be turned off for good Saturday evening. It first came online in 1957.

A small ceremony will be held the evening of March 31 for current and former staff to mark the NRU's retirement. Lesinski admits the mood might be a bit melancholy.

Fred Blackstein isn't shedding tears. For decades, the NRU was at the forefront of its field, where all good scientists want to be. But the world has moved on, and he's happy to see his old employer turn the page.

"The cutting edge work we did when I was here has already seen fruition. We've saved hundreds of millions of lives through cancer therapy, cancer diagnosis, safer aircraft ... the list just goes on and on.

 

[tarabull]

Gone but never forgotten...

Still thinking of Lachlan!!!

 

[dotr]

Gone but never forgotten...

Still thinking of Lachlan!!!

Me too, had him in mind yesterday for some reason.
Wishing all the best to his loving family for 2019!

 

[tarabull]

Can't help but be thinking of Lachlan!!!