Obituary: Professor Charles Taylor.(Obituaries) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: March 23, 2002| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2002 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WHEN THE newly formed Committee for the Public Understanding of Science (nowadays known as Copus), set up jointly by the Royal Society, the Royal Institution and the British Association for the Advancement of Science, met in 1986 to decide who should be the first ever recipient of the Michael Faraday Medal to reward excellence in the presentation of science to lay audiences and schoolchildren there was unanimous agreement that it should be awarded to Charles Taylor. The former Professor and Head of the Department of Physics at the University College of Wales, Cardiff, was then ...