Ruth Lynden-Bell
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Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, FRS
Royal Society
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 is a British computational chemist and an emeritus professor of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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She obtained degrees from the University of Cambridge, became a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Sussex
University of Sussex
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, and later returned to Cambridge. In 1995, she moved to Queen's University Belfast as a co-founder of the interdisciplinary Atomistic Simulation Group (now the Atomistic Simulation Centre). She was elected to the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...

 in 2006 and was awarded a Leverhulme
Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the First Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, with the instruction that its resources should be used to support "scholarships for the purposes of research and education."...

 Emeritus Fellowship in 2003.

She is an Emerita Fellow of New Hall
New Hall
New Hall may refer to:* New Hall School, a school in Essex, England* New Hall, Cambridge, a Cambridge University college now known as Murray Edwards College, in Cambridge, England* New Hall , a prison in West Yorkshire, England...

 (now Murray Edwards College), University of Cambridge and was an Associate of Newnham College. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Chemical Physics
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, Chemical Physics Letters
Chemical Physics Letters
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 and Science and was an editor of Molecular Physics
Molecular Physics (journal)
Molecular Physics is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the interface between chemistry and physics, in particular chemical physics and physical chemistry. It covers both theoretical and experiment molecular science, including electronic structure, molecular dynamics,...

from 1998 to 2003, as well as having been a member of Boards of Electors to Professorial positions in Sweden, the Republic of Ireland, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She was a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's and still collaborates on research.

She received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast in 2009.
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