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A world research centre for nanoHealth is to be established at Swansea University. 8 • Researchers at Cardiff University have developed an analytical tool using chemiluminescence and used in 100 million clinical tests per year world-wide. • The protocol for the controlled trials of drugs devised by Professor Archie Cochrane at Cardiff was to become the world-wide standard procedure in drug evaluation. • Cardiff University’s Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) is one of the first in Britain to combine the latest brain scanning technologies to order to pioneer advanced techniques capable of mapping the structure and function of the healthy and impaired brain. • Rapid and reliable detection of food-poisoning bacteria has been achieved using Picosorb’s magnetic bead technology developed in their north Wales laboratories. • over 25,000 postmortem examinations were carried out by Gower born Sir Bernard Knight, one of the world’s leading forensic pathologists.
Antidotes for snake and scorpion bites are among antisera produced from sheep, goats, donkeys and hens by MicroPharm based in newcastle Emlyn. 9
Page 1 and 2: WELSH ACHIEVEMEnTS [ In SCIEnCE, TE
Page 3 and 4: ConTEnTS 02 Foreword 04 Bioscience
Page 5 and 6: Most innovations bring about increm
Page 7 and 8: Morvus Technology established their
Page 9: Hair samples are being used to iden
Page 13 and 14: • Life science is seen as a ferti
Page 15 and 16: Superimpose centuries of human acti
Page 17 and 18: The earliest example of a cable-sta
Page 19 and 20: The Wales Millennium Centre in Card
Page 21 and 22: Since the early days of the primary
Page 23 and 24: The development of the Internet fol
Page 25 and 26: The first over-water transmission o
Page 27 and 28: • The International Film School W
Page 29 and 30: the management of Siriol Production
Page 31 and 32: The stained-glass expertise practis
Page 33 and 34: In terms of natural and renewable f
Page 35 and 36: Lord Walter Marshall of Rhymney was
Page 37 and 38: • The Institutes of Rural Science
Page 39 and 40: With the basic production of metals
Page 41 and 42: A wholly novel system for fastening
Page 43 and 44: With its long history of mining for
Page 45 and 46: Major aircraft manufacturers and ai
Page 48 and 49: 46 MATERIALS Fully customer-qualifi
Page 50 and 51: For a small country, Wales has been
Page 52 and 53: The identification of crystal faces
Page 54 and 55: 52 TRAnSPoRT Some of Europe’s mos
Page 56 and 57: Aerospace has been a feature on the
Page 58 and 59: 56 The world’s first scheduled ho
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58 The world land speed record of 1
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60 PEoPLE Charles Rolls Motorist an
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1965 - Professor Tavi Murray. b. Mu
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1910 - 1992 Professor Alan Wood. Ch
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1834 - 1913 Sir William Henry Preec
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68 MILESTonES 2005 Completion of ne
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2009 Believed to be the first state
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72 1973 Britain’s highest dam com
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74 1911 The first airborne radio te
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76 1850 First electrically powered
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ConCLUSIon How often have we been t
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