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Professor Michael Woolfson, MA (Oxon), PhD, DSc (Manchester), CPhys, FRAS, FInstP, FRS

Contact details

Mail:	Department of Physics University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD U.K.
Tel:	+44 (0)1904 432230
Fax:	+44 (0)1904 432214
E-mail:	mmw1@york.ac.uk
Room:	P/A013

Recent Publications

M.M. WOOLFSON

The Formation of the Solar System: Theories Old and New.
Imperial College Press (2007)

MM WOOLFSON

Practical SPH models for major planets
Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 376 1173-1181 (2007) (9 pages)

M. M. WOOLFSON, J. X. YAO, E. J. DODSON, AND K. S. WILSON.

ACORN, a review.
Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography 62, 901-908 (2006).

M WOOLFSON

A view of the son Astron.
Geophys. 46 9-9 (2005) (1 page)

J. X. YAO, M. M. WOOLFSON, K. S. WILSON, AND E. J. DODSON.

A modified ACORN to solve protein structures at resolutions of 1.7 angstrom or better.
Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography 61, 1465-1475 (2005).

M. M. WOOLFSON.

The formation of regular satellites.
Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Soc. 354, 419-426 (2004).

M. M. WOOLFSON.

Conform or think?
Astronomy & Geophysics 45, 8-8 (2004).

S. OXLEY AND M. M. WOOLFSON.

The formation of planetary systems.
Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Soc. 348, 1135-1149 (2004).

M. M. WOOLFSON.

The stability of evolving planetary orbits in an embedded cluster.
Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Soc. 348, 1150-1156 (2004).

M. M. WOOLFSON.

Commentary on an ailing theory.
Space Science Rev. 107, 651-663 (2003).

S. OXLEY AND M. M. WOOLFSON.

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics with radiation transfer.
Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Soc. 343, 900-912 (2003).

G. H. A. COLE AND M. M. WOOLFSON.

Reviewing a review.
Observatory 123, 151-153 (2003).

M. M. WOOLFSON.

The evolution of eccentric protoplanetary orbits.
Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Soc. 340, 43-51 (2003).

Y. JIA-XING, M. M. WOOLFSON, K. S. WILSON, AND E. J. DODSON.

ACORN - theory and practice.
Zeitschrift Fur Kristallographie 217, 636-643 (2002).

M. MUKHERJEE, S. MAITI, S. GHOSH, AND M. M. WOOLFSON.

A direct-method ab initio phasing of a protein, cupredoxin amicyanin, at 1.31 angstrom resolution.
Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography 57, 1276-1280 (2001).

Y. GOLANSKI AND M. M. WOOLFSON.

A smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation of the collapse of the interstellar medium.
Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Soc. 320, 1-11 (2001).