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The Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge is the chemistry department of the University of Cambridge. It was formed from a merger in the early 1980s of two separate departments that had moved into the Lensfield Road building decades earlier: the Department of Physical Chemistry (originally led by Professor Ronald Norrish FRS, Nobel Laureate) and the Department of Chemistry (that included theoretical chemistry and which was led by Lord Alexander R. Todd FRS, Nobel Laureate) respectively. Research interests in the department cover a broad of chemistry ranging from molecular biology to geophysics. The department is located on the Lensfield Road, next to the Panton Arms on the South side of Cambridge. As of 2015 the department is home to around 200 postdoctoral research staff, over 250 postgraduate students, around sixty academic staff.
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Research
The Department’s research is organised around five Research Interest Groups (RIGs):
Senior Staff: Professors
As of 2015 the department employs 28 Professors including several Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) shown below:
- Professor Chris Abell FRS FMedSci
- Professor Ali Alavi FRS
- Professor Stuart Althorpe
- Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS
- Professor Jason Chin
- Professor Jane Clarke FRS FMedSci
- Professor Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci
- Professor Stephen Elliott
- Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS
- Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS
- Professor Matthew Gaunt
- Professor Robert Glen
- Professor Jonathan M. Goodman
- Professor Clare Grey FRS
- Professor Chris Hunter FRS
- Professor Bill Jones
- Professor Rod Jones
- Professor David Klenerman FRS FMedSci
- Professor Steven V. Ley FRS
- Professor Jonathan Nitschke
- Professor Ian Paterson FRS
- Professor John A. Pyle FRS
- Professor Jeremy Sanders FRS
- Professor Michiel Sprik
- Professor David Spring
- Professor Michele Vendruscolo
- Professor David J. Wales FRS FRSC
- Professor Dominic Wright
Emeritus Professors
The department is also home to fifteen emeritus professors, pursuing their research interests after their formal retirement including:
- Professor Alan R. Battersby
- Professor A. David Buckingham FRS
- Professor Paul Davies
- Professor Ian Fleming FRS
- Professor Ray Freeman FRS
- Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS
- Professor Brian F. G. Johnson FRS
- Professor David King FRS
- Professor Tony Kirby FRS
- Professor Jacek Klinowski
- Professor Richard Lambert
- Professor Ian Smith FRS
- Professor Jim Staunton FRS
- Professor Anthony Stone
- Professor Brian Thrush