[Dr Nicholas D.S. Canning took up a lectureship at Durham on 1 October 1986 and four years later resigned through ill health.]

Dr Canning's expertise and research interests lay in the electron spectroscopy of surfaces.

Group members by year of joining (Each postgraduate listed obtained the qualification shown.)

1988 Gillian Bell Ph.D. (36 months of full-time study, started on October 1 - Mel Kilner supervised the final 24 months), Sonia Watkinson M.Sc. (12 months of full-time study, started on October 1); 1989 Vladimir Pzonin (visiting professor, USSR/Leningrad/Pedagog.Inst., September 9, 3 months).