Peter Bamfield acts an independent consultant on both colour chemistry and the management of R&D. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 1966, he spent the rest of his career with ICI and Zeneca (now AstraZeneca), before retiring as R&D Manager for the Colours Business in 1993. He was the editor of "Fine Chemicals for the Electronics Industry" (RSC-1986) and the sole author of "Chromic Phenomena; technological applications of colour chemistry" (RSC-2001) and "Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry" (Wiley-VCH 1996 and 2003). He is a Fellow of...