Anthony Cheetham

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Sir Anthony Cheetham FRS
Chemical Heritage Foundation,2005
Born	Anthony Kevin Cheetham (1946-11-16)16 November 1946 Stockport, England
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Scientific career
Fields	Materials Chemistry
Institutions	University of Oxford University of California, Santa Barbara University of Cambridge National University of Singapore
Thesis	Structural Studies on Defect Compounds and Solid Solutions(1971)
Doctoral students	Paul Attfield Clare Grey Matthew Rosseinsky Russell E. Morris
Website	www.mse.nus.edu.sg/staff/cheetham.php materials.ucsb.edu/people/emeritus-and-research-faculty/anthony-cheetham

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.

Education

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.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.

Career and research

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.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 Singaporeand a Research Professorship in the MRL at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara.

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,Clare Grey,Matthew Rosseinsky,andRussell E. Morris.

Honours and awards

• 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)
• 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.
• 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.