abstract:Professor Anthony John Ryan, OBE is a polymer chemist at the University of Sheffield. He delivered the 2002 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
The material is the brainchild of University of Sheffield chemist TonyRyan, aided by British designer Helen Storey and a team from the University of Ulster.
Sent to the airline in 1988 by his mentor TonyRyan, the founder of Guinness Peat Aviation, the largest aircraft-leasing firm in the world before its dramatic downfall in 1992, Mr O'Leary was told to do whatever was necessary to make Ryanair profitable.