I now live with Helen, my wife, in East Lothian, a very pleasant part of Scotland. I have two children from my first marriage, Elaine and Gordon.  Gordon is also a Glasgow Physics graduate and has a Ph.D. from Lancaster and CERN. I have four grandchildren.

Due to illness, I did not finish my degree in 1963 and took my final exams in 1964. Subsequently, I was accepted at Glasgow for a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics. The topic was the electromagnetic excitation of baryon resonances by high energy photons and electrons. I have worked in this field, on and off, until recently.

The improvements of accelerators and detectors have steadily increased the amount and quality of experimental data.  This has kept me busy.    My last analyses involved the measurement of photo-excitation of all known nucleon resonances up to a mass of 2.5 GeV/c² using data from pion photo-production.

Apart from a year at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, I have been at Glasgow University until I retired in 2005. I was the one who never left. I have seen many changes. The Department of Natural Philosophy was merged with Astronomy to become the Department of Physics and Astronomy. I was sad to see the end of Natural Philosophy but the merger is successful. I have enjoyed teaching some Astronomy lecture courses and in the second year Astronomy Practical Class.

Since 2005, I have continued my research and done some teaching as a volunteer. The teaching has mainly involved Astronomy classes for non scientists, called Exploring the Cosmos.