Peter Hore (chemist)

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Peter Hore

FRS
Born
Peter John Hore
Alma mater University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Spouse
(m. 1990)
[1]
Scientific career
Institutions University of Oxford
University of Groningen
Thesis Electron spin resonance studies of transient species  (1980)
Doctoral advisor Keith McLauchlan [2]
Doctoral students
Website hore.chem.ox.ac.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Peter John Hore FRS is a British chemist and academic. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. [6] He is the author of two Oxford Chemistry Primers (OCP 32 and 92) on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) [7] and research articles [8] [9] primarily in the area of NMR, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), spin chemistry and magnetoreception during bird migration. [10] [11] [12]

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Education

Hore was educated at the University of Oxford [2] where he was an undergraduate and graduate student of St John's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1980.[ citation needed ] His Doctor of Philosophy degree was supervised by Keith McLauchlan  [ Wikidata ]. [2]

Career and research

Hore was a Royal Society research fellow at the University of Groningen from 1980 to 1982, [13] and a junior research fellow at St John's from 1982 to 1983 before be appointed a Fellow and tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. [14] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2022. [15]

Personal life

Hore married theoretical physicist Julia Yeomans in 1990. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Julia Yeomans | Royal Society". royalsociety.org.
  2. 1 2 3 Hore, Peter John (1980). Electron spin resonance studies of transient species. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   59963722. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.258188.
  3. Jones, Jonathan A. (1992). Nuclear magnetic resonance data processing methods. ora.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   863543024. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.314864. Lock-green.svg
  4. Kuprov, Ilya (2005). Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization of 19F nuclei (DPhil thesis). arXiv: physics/0604156 . Lock-green.svg
  5. Timmel, Christiane Renate (1998). Magnetic field effects on radical pair reactions. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   556790900. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.267955. Lock-green.svg
  6. "Professor Peter Hore | Corpus Christi College Oxford". www.ccc.ox.ac.uk.
  7. Hore, P.J (1983). "Solvent suppression in fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance". Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 55 (2): 283–300. doi:10.1016/0022-2364(83)90240-8. ISSN   0022-2364.
  8. Peter Hore publications from Europe PubMed Central
  9. Peter Hore publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  10. Rodgers, C. T.; Hore, P. J. (2009). "Chemical magnetoreception in birds: The radical pair mechanism". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (2): 353–360. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711968106 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   2626707 . PMID   19129499.
  11. Maeda, Kiminori; Henbest, Kevin B.; Cintolesi, Filippo; Kuprov, Ilya; Rodgers, Christopher T.; Liddell, Paul A.; Gust, Devens; Timmel, Christiane R.; Hore, P. J. (2008). "Chemical compass model of avian magnetoreception". Nature. 453 (7193): 387–390. doi:10.1038/nature06834. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   18449197. S2CID   4394851.
  12. Maeda, Kiminori; Robinson, Alexander J.; Henbest, Kevin B.; Hogben, Hannah J.; Biskup, Till; Ahmad, Margaret; Schleicher, Erik; Weber, Stefan; Timmel, Christiane R.; Hore, P. J. (2012). "Magnetically sensitive light-induced reactions in cryptochrome are consistent with its proposed role as a magnetoreceptor". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (13): 4774–4779. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1118959109 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   3323948 . PMID   22421133.
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  15. "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society". The Royal Society. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.