Peter Day#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1176 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Peter Day passed away May 19, 2020.
Positions Held
- 2008 University of London, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
- 1995 University College London: Visiting Professor 1991-1995; Royal Institution Professional Research Fellow
- The Royal Institution of Great Britain: Director 1991-1998; Resident Professor of Chemistry 1991-1994; Fullerian Professor of Chemistry 1994-2008; Emeritus Fullerian Professor of Chemistry 2008
- 1988 - 1991 British Associate Director, then Director of Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
- 1965 - 1988 St. John's College, Oxford: Junior Research Fellow, 1963-1965; Official Fellow and Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry,
- Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University: Departmental Demonstrator, 1965-1968; University Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry 1965-1988; Ad Hominem Professor of Solid State Chemistry 1988-1991.
Fields of Scholarship
- Synthesis
- Structures and properties of inorganic and metal-organic solids with unusual kinds of physical behaviour such as ferromagnetism and superconductivity
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry 1958; Institute of Physics
- 1971 Corday Morgan Medal and Prize, Chemical Society
- 1977-1982 Senior Research Fellow, Science & Engineering Research Council
- 1986 Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Solid State Chemistry
- 1986 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1988 Du Pont Distinguished Lecturer, Indiana University
- Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford 1991; St. John's College, Oxford 1996; University College London 2003
- Member, Academia Europaea 1992 (Treasurer 1999-2009; Trustee 2004-2009)
- 1999 Royal Society: Blackett Memorial Lecturer 1994; Bakerian Lecturer
- 2002 French Academy of Sciences: Humphry Davy Lecturer
- 1994 Honorary Member, Materials Research Society of India
- Honorary D.Sc., University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1994; University of Kent at Canterbury 1999
- 1995 onorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Science
- 1997 Birch Lecturer, Australian National University
- 1997 ACL Distinguished Lecturer, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 1998 Daiwa Adrian Prize for Anglo-Japanese Research Collaboration
