
Howard Slater
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Private & Confidential - Curriculum Vitae - 27 July 2023 Personal Name James Howard Osterfield Slater Date of Birth 16 December 1947 Nationality British, born Tamale, Ghana (Gold Coast) E-mail jhowardo.slater@uclmail.net (professional) Address Taunton, Somerset ORCID No 0000-0003-2409-493X
Education & Professional 1966 – 1972 University College London, Microbiology, BSc (1969) (First) PhD (1972), DSc (1986), FRSB (1988), FRSA (1991) Career 1967 - 1969 Vacation employments Beecham Research Laboratories, Worthing, UK. Developed automated penicillin bioassay system, including statistical analysis
1969 – 1972 Consultant, Autodata Ltd. Whilst studying for PhD, consulted on sensitive O2 bioassay for antibiotics
1972 – 1975 Lecturer, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. New school of biochemistry & microbiology formed in UK’s final phase post-WW2 tertiary education
1975 British Council Fellowship, University of Groningen
1975 – 1979 Lecturer, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. First appointment to develop multidisciplinary Environmental Sciences school with Engineering, Physics, Chemistry & Biological Sciences
1979 – 1982 Senior Lecturer, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Promoted because of rapid development of research group in environmental microbiology
1982 Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. As result of Gordon Conference invited to Biological Sciences & worked on evolution of novel metabolic functions
1982 – 1998 Professor, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. Appointed youngest full professor since appointment of University Principal
1982 – 1983 Senior Research Consultant, BioTechnica International Inc, Boston, USA. Accepted position as result of Connecticut sabbatical
1983 – 1988 Research Director and Founder, BioTechnica Ltd, UK sold in part to Lallemand Inc, Milwaukee, USA. Secured City of London funding for Environmental & Agricultural Biotechnology. Sister company to BTI USA
1998 Emeritus Professor, University of Wales. Resigned in part due to rapid deterioration of UK university funding, to date thoughtless increase in student numbers, and failure to respect time allocation for blue skies research. The future objective to fund a major physics/cosmology project (see 2005 to date)
2000 Scientific Panel Member, CropGen, UK public promotion of genetically modified crops with extensive media 2004 work
2002 Director, BioElf Ltd, UK technology transfer company in UK south west Universities, NHS & Plymouth Marine 2005 Laboratory. Sacked because members unable to appreciate an entrepreneurial approach to scientific innovation.
2005 Director, Advanced Physics Initiatives, UK, privately funded. Full time commitment to pure, fundamental to date physics. Two papers published in peer-review in 2023. Two further papers in preparation.
Publications
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ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE: A UNIFIED COSMOLOGY AS AN ACTIVE ALTERNATIVE TO BIG BANG (III)2025
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Thermal-and particle-diffusion waves describe the relative mass of free standard model particlesJournal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2023, 7 (2), pp.53-63. ⟨10.37532/2752-8081.23.7(2).53-63⟩
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Thermal and Particle Diffusion Waves Describe the Relative Mass of Free Standard Model ParticlesScience Progress, In press
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