John Bradley

He studied chemistry at the “Universities of Leeds and London (King's College). After gaining his PhD in chemistry and completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Florida State University, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. During his time in the department, he became a full Professor, was President of the Chemical Institute (1988-90) and was Chairman of the IUPAC Committee on Teaching of Chemistry (1996-2001). He joined with two colleagues to create the RADMASTE Centre in 1991. As one of the creators of the microscience system he helped establish the UNESCO-IUPAC Global Programme in Microscience, which has ultimately resulted in the creation of this and other UNESCO-Associated Centres for Microscience Experiments.” (http://www.microsci.org.za/Tm.htm).

The Microscience Project (MICROSCI)

To make the concept accessible to the majority we had to make it really convenient. We set about developing the concept in the form of an individual student kit which could be used anywhere: classroom, home, field, laboratory.

It comprises a special microwell plate plate (comboplate®), some specially-designed items (such as special lids for the larger wells to facilitate preparation and use of gases) and some standard items (such as plastic syringe, propette) ..."

(J.D. Bradley 2006).