Geoffrey Allen#
Membership Number: | 574 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1989 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1993 – 2003 Chancellor of the University of East Anglia
- 1994 - 2000 member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Protection
- 1994 – 1995 President of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- 1991 – 1993 Vice-President of the Royal Society
- 1982 - 1990 Director of Unilever
- 1981 – 1990 Head of Research at Unilever
- 1990 Adviser to Kobe Steel Ltd.
- 1977 – 1981 Science Research Council
- 1976 – 1981 Professor of Chemical Technology at Imperial College London
- 1980 Visiting Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge.
- 1975 – 1976 Professor of Polymer Science at Imperial College London
- 1965 – 1975 Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of Manchester
- 1955 – 1965 Lecturer at the University of Manchester
Fields of Scholarship
- physics and chemistry of polymers
Honours and Awards
- 1986 honorary doctorate from the University of Essex
- 1986 honorary doctorate from Loughborough University