Sir Richard Catlow | |
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Born | Charles Richard Arthur Catlow 24 April 1947[4] Simonstone, Lancashire,[5] England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry Physics Materials Science Crystallography Computational science[1] |
Institutions | University College London Royal Institution |
Thesis | Defect structures in fluorite crystals (1973) |
Doctoral advisor | Alan Lidiard[2] |
Doctoral students | Robin Grimes,[3] Saiful Islam |
Website | ucl |
Sir Charles Richard Arthur Catlow FRS FRSC FInstP FLSW (born 24 April 1947) is a British chemist and professor at University College London and Cardiff University.[6][1][7][8][9] Previously, he was Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory (1998–2007),[10] and Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution.[4][11] Since 2016, he has served as the foreign secretary of the Royal Society.,[12][13][14][15] and since 2021 as President of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP).[16]
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