Prof. Chris Potts, 1949–2026

Chris Potts was the keynote speaker at the MAPSP Conference in Wernigerode, Germany in 1993.When asked by the Chair for his CV to introduce him, Chris replied, "No need.Just make something up".Taking him at his word, an entirely fictional and increasingly improbable curriculum vitae was duly presented, delivered with a straight face and received with growing hilarity by the audience.After his talk, Chris commented when asked what he thought of the introduction: "It was clearly intended to be a joke".This assessment was brief and entirely in character.In retrospect, that exchange captured him perfectly: instinctively resistant to self-importance, and equipped with a wit so understated that one sometimes realised that one had been gently but unmistakably corrected.