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Location
  
Manchester, United Kingdom

Affiliations
  
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) University of Manchester

Website
  
www.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk

The School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester is one of the largest Schools of Chemistry in the United Kingdom, with over 600 undergraduate and more than 200 postgraduate research students.

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The School has comprehensive academic coverage across the chemical sciences and in all the core sub-disciplines of chemistry, with over 120 postdoctoral researchers.

Senior academic staff: Professors

As of 2015 The School employs 23 full-time Professors and 13 Emeritus Professors including:

Full-time

  1. Mike Anderson, Professor of Materials Chemistry
  2. Perdita Barran, Professor of Mass Spectrometry
  3. Peter M. Budd, Professor of Polymer chemistry
  4. Jonathan Clayden, Professor of Organic Chemistry
  5. David Collison, Professor Of Inorganic Chemistry
  6. Robert Dryfe, Professor of Physical Chemistry
  7. Sabine Flitsch, Professor of Chemical Biology
  8. Roy Goodacre, Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
  9. Michael Greaney, Professor of Organic Chemistry
  10. Douglas Kell, CBE, Professor of Bioanalytical Science
  11. Igor Larrosa, Professor in Organic Chemistry
  12. David Leigh, FRS, Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry
  13. Francis Livens, Professor of Radiochemistry and Research Director, Dalton Nuclear Institute
  14. Eric McInnes, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
  15. Jason Micklefield, Professor of Chemical Biology
  16. Gareth A. Morris, FRS, Professor of Physical Chemistry
  17. Klaus Müller-Dethlefs, Professor
  18. Paul O'Brien CBE FRS, Professor of Inorganic Materials
  19. Simon Pimblott, Professor of Radiation Chemistry
  20. David Procter, Professor of Organic Chemistry
  21. Michael Turner, Professor of Materials Chemistry
  22. Richard Winpenny, Head of School of Chemistry
  23. Stephen Yeates, Professor of Polymer Chemistry

Emeritus

The Schools is also home to a number of Emeritus Professors, pursuing their research interests after their formal retirement including:

  1. John Helliwell, Emeritus Professor
  2. William Byers Brown, Emeritus Professor
  3. Jonathan Connor, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
  4. Ian Hillier, Emeritus Professor
  5. Philip Hodge, Emeritus Professor
  6. John Joule, Emeritus Professor
  7. Bob Munn, Emeritus Professor
  8. Richard Parish, Emeritus Professor
  9. Colin Price, Emeritus Professor
  10. Richard Stoodley, Emeritus Professor
  11. Jim Thomas, Emeritus Professor
  12. Kenneth Waugh, Emeritus Professor
  13. Christopher Whitehead, Emeritus Professor

History of Chemistry in Manchester

Manchester has a long and distinguished history of Chemistry. John Dalton founded modern Chemistry in 1803 with his atomic theory. James Joule pioneered the science of thermodynamics in the 1840s while working in Manchester. Carl Schorlemmer, was appointed the first UK Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1874.

Alumni

Other distinguished alumni and former staff from the school of Chemistry include:

  • Melvin Calvin, worked in Manchester from 1935 to 1937, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961
  • Michael Polanyi, Professor of Chemistry
  • Arthur Harden, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929
  • Norman Haworth, awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937
  • George de Hevesy, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943
  • James Lovelock FRS, undergraduate in Chemistry, graduating in 1941
  • John Charles Polanyi, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986
  • Robert Robinson awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947
  • Ernest Rutherford, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908
  • Michael Smith, completed PhD in Manchester, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993
  • Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957

    • See also Notable chemists (and biologists) at the University of Manchester

    References

    School of Chemistry, University of Manchester Wikipedia
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