Niall Logan obituary – Guardian

My husband, Niall Logan, who has died extinct 70 of pulmonary fibrosis, turned into as soon as an educated on bacillus, a genus of rod-fashioned micro organism with higher than 250 named species that has many uses, including as an industrial enzyme, in food manufacturing, the making of detergents and in DNA be taught.

One in every of his main contributions to the self-discipline turned into as soon as to serve with the scientific classification (taxonomy) of bacillus, work that helped with the approach of checking out programs that might possibly possibly title the a form of species.

As a professor at Glasgow Caledonian College he turned into as soon as awarded a non-public chair in bacterial systematics and turned into as soon as invited to lecture on the topic around the arena. He furthermore conducted be taught in Antarctica at the Italian low at Terra Nova Bay, working on the microbiology of geothermal soils around Mount Rittman. In 2020 a newly identified genus, Niallia circulans, turned into as soon as named by Canadian researchers in his honour.

Niall turned into as soon as born in London to William, a gross sales director for an organization that made electronic devices, and Eileen (nee Rogers), a radiographer. He turned into as soon as educated at City of London Freemen’s school in Surrey after which Dover college in Kent.

After obtaining a firstclass stage in microbiology from the College of Surrey, he did a Three hundred and sixty five days of postgraduate watch at the College of Bristol sooner than accepting a post as a lecturer in microbiology at Glasgow College of Technology, which later turned into Glasgow Polytechnic after which Glasgow Caledonian College. He remained as a lecturer and researcher there for the remainder of his working existence. His guide Bacterial Systematics (1994) is a standard undergraduate text on the taxonomy of bacillus.

We married in 1977, and lived for four an extended time in a uncommon survival of a Scottish longhouse in Balmore village, East Dunbartonshire. He spent worthy of his time out of doors work researching the historical previous and constructing of the condominium, and turned into as soon as a member of the Scottish Vernacular Structures Working Team, which he later chaired and for which he organised conferences, self-discipline journeys and working occasions. He furthermore joined the board of trustees of the Auchindrain originate air museum, a preserved Scottish farming township.

With his pal Paul Bishop, Niall place up and ran a a success local historical previous team of their parish of Baldernock. Each lecturers, they had been worthy in ask as audio system and applied their be taught abilities to enormous operate in the self-discipline of local historical previous be taught.

Niall turned into as soon as furthermore a well informed panorama painter, exhibiting and selling his art work at Resipole Studios art gallery on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, and a titillating tune lover and reader. An enthusiastic hill walker, he conquered many Munros in Scotland, continuously accompanied by diverse of the 11 Cavalier King Charles spaniels he owned over time.

He is survived by me, our four childhood, Flowers, Cordelia, Victoria and William, and 7 grandchildren.