He completed his postgraduate work in the Clarendon Laboratory and was awarded his DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 1981[4] for research supervised by Anthony Michael Glazer.

Highlights include the comprehensive crystal-structure analysis of C60 (Buckminsterfullerene),[7] and the accelerated determination of molecular crystal structures through his computer program, DASH.

[8] His theoretical work is based on the application of Bayesian probability theory in areas ranging from structural incompleteness to parametric data analysis.

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