Sandy Lawson was born 1944 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He is
currently the Director of R&D at Elsevier MDL where he is
responsible for all newconcepts with respect to content products
for the company.
Professor Lawson has a BSc in Chemistry at the University of
St. Andrews (1966), a PhD in Organic Chemistry (Physical Organic)
at Imperial College, London and an extra-mural professorship at
the University of Mainz since the early 1990s. He has twenty years
experience as R&D Director, first at the Beilstein Institute,
then Beilstein Information Sytems and Elsevier MDL. He was an
Irvine Medallist in 1966. Since 1990 he has been a member of the
IUPAC Committees for Publications, Databases, Structural Representation.
He was the creator of the CrossFire concept (1992-4).
Sandy Lawson's interests are in Reading Machines in chemistry,
bridge and golf.