Alexander Robertus Todd,Baron Todd,was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides,nucleosides,and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957.
Frederick Sydney Dainton,Baron Dainton,Kt,FRS,FRSE was a British academic chemist and university administrator.
Sir Robert Robinson was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. In 1947,he also received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm.
Sir Edwin Mellor Southern is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist,Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College,Oxford. He is most widely known for the invention of the Southern blot,published in 1975 and now a common laboratory procedure.
Sir John Meurig Thomas,also known as JMT,was a Welsh scientist,educator,university administrator,and historian of science primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis,solid-state chemistry,and surface and materials science.
George Barger FRS FRSE FCS LLD was a British chemist.
David Alan Leigh FRS FRSE FRSC is a British chemist,Royal Society Research Professor and,since 2014,the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He was previously the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (2001–2012) and Professor of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Warwick (1998–2001).
Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham is a British materials scientist. From 2012 to 2017 he was Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Society.
Laurence David Barron has been Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow since 1998. He is a chemist who has conducted pioneering research into the properties of chiral molecules —defined by Lord Kelvin as those that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror image. By extending this definition of chirality to include moving particles and processes that vary with time,he has made a fundamental theoretical contribution to the field. Chiral molecules such as amino acids,sugars,proteins,and nucleic acids play a central role in the chemistry of life,and many drug molecules are chiral. Laurence's work on Raman optical activity —a spectroscopic technique capable of determining the three-dimensional structures of chiral molecules,which he predicted,observed,and applied to problems at the forefront of chemistry and structural biology —has led to its development as a powerful analytical tool used in academic and industrial laboratories worldwide. His much-cited book,Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity,has contributed to the growing impact of chirality on many areas of modern science.
Jeremy Keith Morris Sanders is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science. He is known for his contributions to many fields including NMR spectroscopy and supramolecular chemistry. He served as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Affairs at the University of Cambridge,2011–2015.
Graham John Hutchings CBE FRS FIChemE FRSC FLSW is a British chemist,Professor for Research at Cardiff University.
Guy Charles Lloyd-Jones FRS FRSE is a British chemist. He is the Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. His research is largely concerned with the determination of organometallic reaction mechanisms,especially those of palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions such as Suzuki-Miyaura coupling.
Harry Laurence Anderson is a British chemist in the Department of Chemistry,University of Oxford. He is well known for his contributions in the syntheses of supramolecular systems,exploration of the extraordinary physical properties of large pi-conjugated systems,and synthesis of cyclo[18]carbon. He is a Professor of Chemistry at Keble College,Oxford.
Polly Louise Arnold is a British chemist who is director of the chemical sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of chemistry at the University of California,Berkeley. She previously held the Crum Brown chair in the School of Chemistry,University of Edinburgh from 2007 to 2019 and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) career fellowship.
Richard Maling Barrer FRS was a New Zealand-born chemist. His areas of research included gas permeability of membranes and zeolite science,of which he was a founding figure;he also gave his name to the zeolite Barrerite. The barrer,a unit of gas permeability,is also named after him.
Sir David Allan "Dai" Rees,FRS was a British biochemist and science administrator who was chief executive of the Medical Research Council between 1987 and 1996.
Benjamin Guy Davis is a British chemist who is Professor of Chemical biology in the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College,Oxford. He holds the role of Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry (2019-2024) and Deputy Director (2020-) at the Rosalind Franklin Institute.
Roger Arthur Sheldon is a British chemist who is emeritus professor of Biocatalysis and Organic Chemistry at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Stephen Mann,FRS,FRSC,is Professor of Chemistry,co-director of the Max Planck Bristol Centre for Minimal Biology,director of the Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry,director of the Centre for Protolife Research,and was principal of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Bristol,UK.
Malcolm Harold Chisholm was a British inorganic chemist who worked mainly in North America,a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,and Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University who contributed to the synthesis and structural chemistry of transition metal complexes.
