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Professor Cremlyn was educated at Swansea University College, Wales and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Most of his long and distinguished career has been spent as a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where he is Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry. During that time he...