Second part

0:09:07 My immediate predecessor as Professor was Jack Linnett; a wonderful human being who became Master of Sydney Sussex and then Vice-Chancellor; he was immersed in administration as a consequence; the Department of Physical Chemistry was not as efficiently run as other chemistry departments; found some of the technicians were growing tomatoes as no one was checking on what they were doing; the real impact was to find how bright the Cambridge students are where nine out of ten were capable of becoming PhD students; giving supervisions was some of the most exhilarating teaching I have ever done; students amazingly able and could tackle problems that even I was unsure about; wish in some ways I had come when younger and then I would have done even more; memories of Lawrence Bragg; purpose of the Royal Institution; Bragg was the youngest Nobel Prize winner at twenty-five, a crystallographer; also had the ability to describe science in simple terms; father, W.H. Bragg, also a great communicator and Dorothy Hodgkin apparently became a scientist having heard him give the Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution; have given these lectures myself

8:03:05 Story of Michael Faraday; James Clark Maxwell; Faraday has been my lode star, I have lived in his home, have read most of his letters, articles and journals; had to resign my fellowship at King's when I went to the Royal Institution (in 1986); I would have stayed there but my wife became ill and I was advised that the strain of entertaining was not good for her; I had a short period as Deputy Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales, a part-time job, while still resaerching in the Royal Institution; in 1993 came back to Cambridge as Master of Peterhouse; I really enjoyed it although it is a right-wing college and I am left of centre; found even the right-wing fellows were nice people; a small college is even better than a big one at getting people to interact; physicist Peter Scheuer; Aaron Klug; Hugh Trevor-Roper; one great thing about being Master is that you can help people; critical role of Senior Tutor in a college; most important job for a Master is to choose fellows, especially research fellows, which I took extremely seriously