Name Ruth Lynden-Bell Notable awards Royal Society Fields Chemistry | Spouse Donald Lynden-Bell | |
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Born 7 December 1937 (age 86) ( 1937-12-07 ) Institutions University of Cambridge
Queen's University, Belfast
University of Sussex Alma mater Newnham College, Cambridge Thesis Studies in magnetic resonance (1963) | ||
Education University of Cambridge Doctoral students Mark Bender Gerstein | ||
Ruth Marion Lynden-Bell, FRS (born 7 December 1937) is a British chemist, emeritus professor of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Cambridge, and acting President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge from 2011 to 2013.
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Education
Ruth Lynden-Bell began her education at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham. She subsequently obtained degrees from the University of Cambridge, became a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Sussex, and later returned to Cambridge. In 1995, she moved to Queen's University Belfast as a co-founder of the interdisciplinary Atomistic Simulation Group (now the Atomistic Simulation Centre). She was elected to the Royal Society in 2006 and was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship in 2003.
Research
Lynden-Bell researches atomistic simulation to investigate the properties of liquids. She is an Emerita Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College, Cambridge), and was an Associate of Newnham College, Cambridge. She was acting President of Murray Edwards College from Jan 2012 – Dec 2012. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters and Science and was an editor of Molecular Physics from 1998 to 2003, as well as having been a member of Boards of Electors to Professorial positions in Sweden, the Republic of Ireland, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She was a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's and still collaborates on research.
Awards
She received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast in 2009 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.