Prof Sir David King, FRS's Biography

Prof Sir David King, FRS's Professional Career

Career

Shell scholar Imperial Coll London 1963-66, lectr in chemical physics UEA 1966-74, Brunner prof of physical chemistry Univ of Liverpool 1974-88; Univ of Cambridge: 1920 prof of physical chemistry 1988-2005, head Dept of Chemistry 1993-2000, dir of research 2005-; fell St John's Coll Cambridge 1988-95, master Downing Coll Cambridge 1995-2000, fell Queens' Coll Cambridge 2001-08, chief scientific advsr to UK Govt and head Office of Sci and Innovation 2000-07, dir Smith Sch of Enterprise and the Environment Univ of Oxford and fell Univ Coll Oxford 2008-, sr science advsr UBS 2008-, chief scientific advsr to President Kagame of Rwanda 2009-, Bd pres Collegio Carlo Alberto Turin 2009-, chcllr Univ of Liverpool 2010-; pres AUT 1976-77; chm Leverhulme Tst Res Awards Advsy Ctee 1995-2000, memb Direction Ctee Fritz Haber Inst Berlin 1981-93; ed Chemical Physics Letters 1989-2001, chm Kettle's Yard (House and Art Gallery) Cambridge 1989-2000; pres Br Science Assoc 2008-09 (hon fell 2009); Br Vac Cncl medal and award for research 1991, Greenpeace Business Lectr 2004, World Wildlife Fund Awareness Award 2004, Arthur W Adamson Award American Chemical Soc 2009; FInstP 1977 (MInstP 1967), FRSC 1974 (medal and award for surface chem 1978, Tilden lectr 1988-89, Liversidge lecture and medal 1997), FRS 1991 (Rumford medal and prize 2002), foreign fell American Acad of Arts and Sciences 2002

Prof Sir David King, FRS's Publications

Books and Publications

The Hot Topic (with Gabrielle Walker, 2008); numerous scientific pubns on the chemical physics of solid surfaces and gas/surface interactions

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