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Glazer, Anthony Michael
Professor Anthony Michael Glazer BSc.(St Andrews), PhD. (University College London), MA (Cantab.) (born 1 May 1943 - ) is a British crystallographer and Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. . He is also Emeritus Official Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College Oxford.

Biography
Mike Glazer was born in North London and went to Christ's College, Finchley. Prior to this he found by accident a small pebble in which there were coloured rings. This intrigued him so much that he started to collect rocks and crystals. This began his lifelong interest in the field of Crystallography. After leaving school he spent a year working in the Airborne Computing Division of Elliott Automation in Borehamwoood. Subsequently (1962-1965) he studied Chemistry at Queen's College, St. Andrews University (later Dundee University). In 1965 he went to the Chemistry Department at University College London to study for his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, where he worked on the crystallography of mixed organic crystals. After graduating he spent a year in the Chemistry Department at Harvard University in the group of Jack Gougoutas. . In 1969, while attending the International Congress of Crystallography in Stony Brook, he met with the Helen D. Megaw , who offered him a postdoctoral position at the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge. When Helen Megaw and the head of the Crystallography Laboratory, Will Taylor retired, Mike Glazer became the Head of the Crystallography Laboratory. In 1976, he moved the whole research group to the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford where he was appointed as a Lecturer in Physics and also Official fellow and Tutor of Jesus College Oxford. He officially retired in 2010, although he continues to teach Condensed Matter Physics for the Department and College.

Scientific work
In 1972, Mike Glazer published a seminal paper on the tilting of octahedra in perovskites, in which he developed a notation to describe the 23 possible tilting arrangements. This notation is these days the internationally accepted way to describe such octahedral variations in perovskites. In 1986, he invented together with John Cosier a low-temperature apparatus (Cryostream) which for the first time made low-temperature X-ray diffraction available simply to crystallographers world-wide. Mike Glazer and John Cosier then founded the successful company Oxford Cryosystems Ltd. Mike Glazer has published in excess of 300 papers, mainly in scientific journals. These have covered subjects such as the relationship between optical activity and crystal structures and fundamental understanding ofthe structures of the important piezoelectric material lead zirconate-titanate e.g..

Other matters
Mike Glazer had an active scientific collaboration with the Chemistry Faculty, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland for several years. When martial law broke out in Poland in 1981 he joined forces with Zbigniew Pełczyński to set up the Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme for Polish Scholars. Glazer dealt with applications from Poland from scientists while Pełczyiński dealt with the arts and humanities. This enabled Polish scholars to leave during the difficult times in Poland to come to Oxford and spend one or two months living at one of the Oxford Colleges. The scheme was so successful that later, the philanthropist, George Soros decided to contribute funds on the condition the scheme would be opened up to the rest of Eastern Europe, including Russia. The scheme was later copied by Cambridge University. Ten years after, Mike Glazer was awarded the National Medal of Education in Poland. In 2012, Mike Glazer was awarded the Czochralski Medal by the European Materials Research Society in Warsaw.

The International Union of Crystallography
In 1966, Mike Glazer attended the International Congress of Crystallography, and this led to a long relationship with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). since then he has attended every IUCr Congress. He has been a member of the IUCr Finance Committee for many years. He was general editor of the IUCr Journal of Applied Crystallography for 9 years. In 2014, he was elected Vice President of the IUCr. Since then, Mike Glazer has been the Editor in Chief of the IUCr International Newsletter. A fuller account of Mike Glazer's career can be found at ACA History and at IEEE Oral History