Anniversary Dinner

The CCDC's 40th Anniversary Dinner took place at Selwyn College, Cambridge on 23 September 2005. Current CCDC staff hosted guests who included CCDC Governors past and present, a number of ex-staff members and representatives from professional societies, other crystallographic databases and the UK scientific community.

The evening concluded with short speeches from:

Professor Sir David King FRS (Cambridge University)
Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government and
Chair of the CCDC Board of Governors 1998-2000

Professor Jack Dunitz (ETH Zurich)
Founder Governor of the CCDC 1987-1999

Professor Carolyn P Brock (University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, USA)
Chair of the CCDC Board of Governors 2005-2007

Dr Frank H. Allen
Executive Director, CCDC