Anthony Cheetham
Anthony Cheetham | |
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Born | Anthony Kevin Cheetham 16 November 1946 Stockport, England |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Materials Chemistry |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Structural Studies on Defect Compounds and Solid Solutions(1971) |
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Sir Anthony Kevin CheethamFRS(born 16 November 1946) is a British materials scientist. From 2012 to 2017 he was Vice-President and Treasurer of theRoyal Society.[4]
Education
[edit]Cheetham was educated at Stockport Grammar School and read chemistry atSt Catherine's College, Oxford,matriculating in 1965, and graduated with first class honours in 1969.[5]He started his doctorate atWadham College, Oxfordin the same year, with a thesis on 'The Structures of some Non-stoichiometric Compounds'; his doctorate was awarded in 1972.[5]
Career and research
[edit]After completing his doctorate, Cheetham became a Junior Research Fellow atLincoln College, Oxford.In 1974 he became a University Lecturer in Chemical Crystallography, and in 1990 he became Ad Hominem Reader in Inorganic Materials. Cheetham moved to theUnited Statesa year later to take up a position as Professor of Materials at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara,where he became the first director of the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL). In 2007, Cheetham moved back to the United Kingdom to becomeGoldsmiths' Professor of Materials ScienceatUniversity of Cambridge,a position he held until October 2017.[5]He is now a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. He also holds a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at theNational University of Singapore[6]and a Research Professorship in the MRL at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara.[7]
Cheetham's area of research is inorganic and hybrid materials, and involves their synthesis, characterization and applications. He has worked on the development of advanced methods for the chemical and structural characterization of polycrystalline materials and the application of these techniques to the study ofzeolitecatalysts,molecular sieves,and optical materials. His current interests are in the field of functionalmetal-organic frameworksandhybrid perovskites.
His former doctoral students includePaul Attfield,[1]Clare Grey,[2]Matthew Rosseinsky,andRussell E. Morris.[3]
Honours and awards
[edit]- 1982Corday-Morgan Medaland Prize of Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1988 Solid State Chemistry Award of theRoyal Society
- 1994 Elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[8]
- 1996RSCStructural Chemistry Award
- 1997Chaire Internationale de Recherche "Blaise Pascal",Paris, France
- 1999 Elected aFellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
- 2001 Elected an Honorary Fellow of theIndian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Somiya Award of theInternational Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS)
- 2006 Docteur Honoris Causa,Université de Versailles,France
- 2008 Cheetham Award Lecture, UC Santa Barbara
- 2011 Platinum Medal of theInstitute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- 2011 Elected a Member of theGerman National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2011 Raman Chair,Indian Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Honorary D.Sc.,University of St. Andrews,Scotland
- 2011 Honorary D.Sc.,Tumkur University,India
- 2012 Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry of theRoyal Society of Chemistry.[9]
- 2013 Elected a Member of theGerman National Academy of Engineering (acatech)
- 2014Chemical Pioneer Award,American Institute of Chemists
- 2014 Elected a Member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2015 Honorary D.Sc.,University of Warwick,England
- 2017 Basolo Medal,Northwestern University,USA
- 2017 Elected an Honorary Fellow,Trinity College,University of Cambridge,England
- 2018 Elected an Honorary Fellow,Singapore National Academy of Science
- 2019 Elected a Foreign Fellow,Indian National Science Academy
Cheetham wasknightedin the2020 New Year Honoursfor services to materials chemistry, UK science and global outreach.[10]
References
[edit]- ^abAttfield, John Paul(1987).The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds(DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.OCLC863504840.
- ^abGrey, Clare Philomena (1990).A119Sn and89Y MAS NMR study of rare-Earth pyrochlores.bodleian.ox.ac.uk(DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.OCLC53567496.EThOSuk.bl.ethos.276535.
- ^abMorris, Russell Edward (1992).Synthesis and characterization of metal phosphites and selenites(DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.OCLC60089703.
- ^Royal Society "Officers",accessed 23 March 2015
- ^abc"Functional Inorganics and Hybrid Materials: Anthony K. Cheetham resume".University of Cambridge. Archived fromthe originalon 1 July 2010.Retrieved27 January2009.
- ^"Department of Materials Science and Engineering - NUS".www.mse.nus.edu.sg.Retrieved7 June2018.
- ^"Anthony Cheetham".materials.ucsb.edu.Retrieved7 June2018.
- ^"Anthony Cheetham FRS".London:Royal Society.Archived fromthe originalon 17 November 2015.
- ^"RSC Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry Previous Winners".www.rsc.org.Retrieved17 December2020.
- ^"No. 62866".The London Gazette(Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N2.
- Living people
- 1946 births
- English chemists
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
- Goldsmiths' Professors of Materials Science
- Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford
- Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
- Foreign Fellows of Pakistan Academy of Sciences
- British materials scientists
- Knights Bachelor
- Rare earth scientists
- Solid state chemists