Prof Peter Atkins

Career: Harkness fell 1964-65; Univ of Oxford: univ lectr in physical chemistry 1965-96, prof of chemistry 1996-2007, fell and tutor Lincoln Coll 1965-2007 (actg rector 2007); visiting prof: China, France, Israel, Japan, New Zealand; Dreyfus lectr California 1980, Firth visiting prof Univ of Sheffield 1984, Nyholm lectr and medal 1999; chm Ctee on Chemistry Educn IUPAC 2002-05, memb Cncl Royal Inst 1999-2005; memb Ct Univ of Leicester 2001; hon prof Mendeleyev Univ Moscow 2006; Hon DSc Univ of Utrecht 1992, Hon DSc Univ of Leicester 2002, Hon DSc Kazan State Technological Univ 2009; Meldola Medal 1969, Literaturpreis des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie 2003, Inst of Chemistry of Ireland Award 2008; hon assoc: Rationalist Assoc 1993, Nat Secular Soc 1998; FRSC 2002

Books and Publications: The Structure of Inorganic Radicals (1967), Molecular Quantum Mechanics (1970, 5 edn 2010), Quanta: A Handbook of Concepts (1974, 2 edn 1991), Physical Chemistry (1978, 9 edn 2010), Solutions Manual for Physical Chemistry (1978, 7 edn 2002), The Creation (1981), Principles of Physical Chemistry (1982), Solutions Manual for MQM (1983, 4 edn 2005), The Second Law (1984), Molecules (1987, 2 edn 2003), Chemistry: Principles and Applications (1988), General Chemistry (1989, 2 edn 1992), Inorganic Chemistry (1990, 5 edn 2010), Atoms, Electrons and Change (1991), Elements of Physical Chemistry (1992, 5 edn 2009), Creation Revisited (1992), The Periodic Kingdom (1995), Concepts of Physical Chemistry (1995), Chemistry: Molecules, Matter and Change (1997, 5 edn 2010), Chemical Principles (1999, 5 edn 2010), Galileo's Finger (2003), Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences (2006, 2 edn 2011), Four Laws That Drive the Universe (2007), Quanta, Molecules and Change (2009), A Very Short Introduction to the Laws of Thermodynamics (2010), On Being (2011), Reactions (2011)