The Department of Chemistry at the University
of Cambridge is the chemistry department of
the University of Cambridge. It was formed
from a merger in the early 1980s of two separate
departments that had moved into the Lensfield
Road building decades earlier: the Department
of Physical Chemistry (originally led by Professor
Ronald Norrish FRS, Nobel Laureate; the department
was previously located near the Old Cavendish
in Free School Lane - see photo) and the Department
of Chemistry (that included theoretical chemistry
and which was led by Lord Alexander R. Todd
FRS, Nobel Laureate) respectively. Research
interests in the department cover a broad
of chemistry ranging from molecular biology
to geophysics. The department is located on
the Lensfield Road, next to the Panton Arms
on the South side of Cambridge. As of 2015
the department is home to around 200 postdoctoral
research staff, over 250 postgraduate students,
around sixty academic staff.
== Research ==
The Department’s research is organised around
five Research Interest Groups (RIGs):
Biological Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Synthetic Chemistry
Theoretical Chemistry, Modelling and Cheminformatics
== Senior Staff: Professors ==
As of 2015 the department employs 28 Professors
including several Fellows of the Royal Society
(FRS), Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
(FMedSci) and Fellows of the Royal Society
of Chemistry (FRSC) shown below:
Professor Chris Abell FRS FMedSci
Professor Ali Alavi FRS
Professor Stuart Althorpe
Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci
FRS
Professor Jason Chin
Professor Jane Clarke FRS FMedSci
Professor Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci
Professor Stephen Elliott
Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS
Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS
Professor Matthew Gaunt
Professor Robert Glen
Professor Jonathan M. Goodman
Professor Clare Grey FRS
Professor Chris Hunter FRS
Professor Bill Jones
Professor Rod Jones
Professor David Klenerman FRS FMedSci
Professor Steven V. Ley FRS
Professor Jonathan Nitschke
Professor Ian Paterson FRS
Professor John A. Pyle FRS
Professor Jeremy Sanders FRS
Professor Michiel Sprik
Professor David Spring
Professor Michele Vendruscolo
Professor David J. Wales FRS FRSC
Professor Dominic Wright
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Emeritus Professors ==
The department is also home to fifteen emeritus
professors, pursuing their research interests
after their formal retirement including:
Professor Alan R. Battersby
Professor A. David Buckingham FRS
Professor Paul Davies
Professor Ian Fleming FRS
Professor Ray Freeman FRS
Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS
Professor Brian F. G. Johnson FRS
Professor David King FRS
Professor Tony Kirby FRS
Professor Jacek Klinowski
Professor Richard Lambert
Professor Ian Smith FRS
Professor Jim Staunton FRS
Professor Anthony Stone
Professor Brian Thrush FRS
