Geoffrey Frank Grant

Geoffrey Frank Grant (born 5 September 1941) is a retired scientist and administrative manager formerly at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Born in Empingham, Rutland, he moved to the United States and resides in Palm Springs, California.
Science career
As a post-doctoral fellow, he continued research at nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies becoming an assistant research professor in the neuro-endocrinology laboratory of Roger Guillemin. At the Salk, he conducted studies and published with Guillemin on the cell biology and mode of action / structure-activity relationships of hypothalamic hormone analogues and was a co-discoverer of the hypothalamic peptide, Somatostatin. He has articles published in both Nature and Science.
His present interests are as a naturopathic theorist extending the theory he published -"The DOLE - Decline of Life's Energy - Theory of Aging." 2000.
Tennis
While a researcher at the Salk Institute he designed, developed, and built a computerised electronic line judge computer. During 1974 and 1975 his device was used in the first successful public demonstration of a computerised line-calling device at a professional tennis tournament. This original tennis electronic line judge device was used by the Men's World Championship Tennis and the Ladies' Virginia Slims sponsored tennis tours. The computerised device not only made decisions as to whether the ball landed within the boundaries of the playing zones but also made foot fault and service net-cord decisions.
During the early years 1975-6, of the World TeamTennis (WWT) league it adopted Dr. Grant's creative alternative tennis court design as a 'signature logo'. The original WTT no-line, multi-colored tennis court was a multi-coloured court with eleven separate coloured areas with no segregating lines. A USPTO utility patent was issued in 1977.
Professional
During the last decade Grant was professor and an administrative manager at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the University of Texas at Arlington where he assisted and mentored entrepreneurs in their efforts to commercialise university intellectual property. He is now retired and lives in Palm Springs, California.

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