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Book Read: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
A simply staggering business book about the opiod based pain killers and the ruthless family business behind it.
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Surrey News - Ron Shail
Great lecturer from Univeristy of Surrey:
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/alumni/our-alumni/births-deaths-and-marriages
We are sad to announce that Professor Ron Shail passed away on 7th September 2022.
Ron joined the University from the University of Liverpool in September 1966 as Reader in Applied Mathematics and was appointed Professor of Mathematics in October 1987 and Emeritus Professor on his retirement. He spent his first year at the institution commuting up to Battersea. He excelled at research, being awarded a DSc by the University of London in 1982. He was Head of Department from October 1989 to September 1994, a post he occupied with great pride and commitment.
Ron was passionate about his subject and an excellent teacher at all levels. The family have received many wonderful tributes from former colleagues. He loved cricket and used to joke that his research fellows, assistants and PhD students were recruited on the basis of their ability to bowl at him in the cricket nets although this did not always work out!
Ron loved the university. Even after he had moved away from Guildford in 2016 to be nearer his family, he still looked forward to receiving news and was always so proud about how well the university was performing in the various league tables. He was Surrey through and through!