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Residence
  
New Zealand


Name
  
Leon Phillips

Fields
  
Physical Chemistry

Institutions
  
McGill University University of Canterbury

Alma mater
  
University of Canterbury, University of Cambridge

Institution
  
McGill University, University of Canterbury

Notable awards
  
Hector Medal (1979)

Leon Francis Phillips (born 1935) is a New Zealand physical chemist specialising in the gas-liquid interface and atmospheric chemistry.

Born in 1935, Phillips attended Canterbury University College, from where he graduated with an MSc with first class honours in 1958. After a PhD at the University of Cambridge and post-doctoral research at McGill University, he returned to lecture at Canterbury, rising to the rank of professor in 1966.

In 1968 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 1979 he won the society's Hector Medal.

Selected works

  • Phillips, Leon Francis (1967). Electronics for experimenters in chemistry, physics and biology. New York: Wiley. 
  • Phillips, Leon Francis (1965). Basic quantum chemistry. New York: Wiley. 
  • McEwan, Murray J.; Phillips, Leon Francis (1975). Chemistry of the atmosphere. London: Wiley. 

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