Authors are listed in the order in which they appear in the book J Anthony Semlyen was a Gibbs Scholar, Salters Scholar and Domus Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford until 1962 and a Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford in 1963 and 1967.
He obtained his MA, BSc and DPhil degrees at Oxford under the supervision of Dr Courtenay S G Phillips.
From 1964 to 1966, he was a Fulbright Scholar with Professor Paul J Flory at Stanford University, California.
Since 1967, he has been at the University of York. He has edited Cyclic Polymers (Elsevier Applied Science, 1986), co-edited Siloxane Polymers (Prentice Hall, 1993) with Dr Stephen J Clarson and edited Large Ring Molecules (John Wiley & Sons, 1996).
His research interests are large ring molecules and cyclic polymers and he has published research papers, reviews and books on these topics with the active collaboration of over 150 co-workers and co-authors drawn from five continents
Alexander Vologodskii received his PhD in Molecular Biophysics at Moscow Physical Technical Institute in 1975. He spent the next 16 years in the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Moscow.
In 1985 he received the higher Russian scientific degree, Doctor of Science, at Moscow University. He was a visiting scientist at University of California at Berkeley in 1992-1993 and now is Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry at New York University.
His research interests include conformational properties of nucleic acids, particularly properties of circular DNA molecules. He authored the book Topology and Physics of Circular DNA (1992) and more than 70 research papers.
