Charles Buckley

Charles Buckley is one of Symvatec's most senior scientists. He features in Nine Whispered Words.

Character Background
Charles Buckley is one of Symvatec’s most senior scientists, a position which unfortunately involves very little in the way of actual science. Although the money and the power were intoxicating for a while, he has gradually ended up doing a job he hates, for people he hates, the chemistry he loves being replaced bit by bit with endless rounds of meetings and management. On top of that, he has less and less time for his family.

Over the last five months, he has been staying behind at the lab after hours, chasing a little private hunch, and he has found a new, stable catalyst for the borane reduction of ketones, far better than anything the industry has at the moment. He has been diverting a small amount of lab funds to persue this.

He has been considering starting his own independant lab, and intends to persuade some of the other scientists and investors to join him.

Nine Whispered Words
During the mystery Charles sucessfully set up his own chemical company, Trinity Pharmaceuticals alongside Margaret Lewis, Kenneth Dawson and Ralph Charlton, taking his new mechanism and valuable industry secrets with him.