Robin Perutz
Encyclopedia
Robin Perutz FRS son of the Nobel Prize
winner Max Perutz
, is currently a professor of Inorganic Chemistry
at the University of York
, where he was formerly head of department.
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner Max Perutz
Max Perutz
Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, CBE, FRS was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins...
, is currently a professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds , which are the subjects of organic chemistry...
at the University of York
University of York
The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...
, where he was formerly head of department.
Awards and Distinctions
- President of Dalton Division of the Royal Society of ChemistryRoyal Society of ChemistryThe Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences." It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new...
2007-10 - Nyholm Medal and Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2005
- Sacconi Medal of Italian Chemical Society and Sacconi Foundation 2008
- Franco-British Prize of the French Chemical Society 2009
- Fellow of the Royal Society 2010
Plenary and Invited Lectures
- Plenary Lecture ACS Winter Fluorine Conference, Florida Jan 2005
- Invited Lecture International Symposium on Photophysics and Photochemistry of Coordination Compounds, Hong Kong, July 2004
- Troisième Cycle Lecturer, Bern, Basel, Neuchatel & Lausanne, Switzerland May 2003