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I certainly aged in the four weeks between photographs in The THES (In the news, October 4; "Celebrity snares", November 1). I am obviously not the celebrity you think as the error went unnoticed by yourselves and all but one reader. Perhaps this will change after the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are broadcast on Channel 4 from December to 31.

Anthony J. Ryan
ICI professor of physical chemistry
University of Sheffield