The August issue is dedicated to the memory of Roger F.C. Brown, who died 1 September 2013. Experiments with low-pressure gas-phase pyrolysis, Later to be known as flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) were started by Wilfred (Bill) D. Crow and Roger F.C. Brown in the Chemistry Department, School of GeneraL Studies, Australian National University, in 1965. At that time, there were two places in Canberra where one could do chemical research: the Medical Chemistry Department in the John Curtin School of Medical Research and the Chemistry Department in the School of General Studies (SGS), whereas the Research School of Chemistry opened in 1967. The name 'School of General Studies' (the former Canberra University College) was changed to 'The Faculties' in 1979.
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