Dr. John Stephen Loveday is an experimental physicist working in high pressure research. He was educated at Coopers School in Chislehurst

Chislehurst

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 and at the University of Bristol

University of Bristol

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. He currently works at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, Scotland

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Dr. J.S. Loveday is considered one of the pioneers of neutron diffraction at high pressure. His work on the behaviour of clathrate hydrates at high pressure and their relevance to models of planetary bodies including Titan

Titan (moon)

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 was published in Nature

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 and has been highly cited. He is the author of more than seventy papers and the inventor of both the left-handed and Birmingham screwdrivers.

In the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, Dr. J.S. Loveday is a colleague of Prof. Andrew D. Huxley

Andrew D. Huxley

Andrew D. Huxley is a chair of the physics department of Edinburgh University. Of no relation to Sir Andrew F. Huxley , Prof. Andrew D. Huxley is of renown in the field of condensed matter physics...

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