Charles Wilson (chemist)

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Charles (Chick) Wilson is an English physicist and chemist and currently Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bath. From 2003 to 2010, Wilson Regius was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow .

Life

From 1978 to 1982 Wilson studied in Glasgow and graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Physics . He then moved to the University of Dundee , where he received a Ph.D. graduated in physics. His doctoral thesis was "X-ray Diffraction Studies of Some Materials of Biological Interest" . He moved to the SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, where he worked as an instrument scientist. He rose in the ranks to head of the crystallography section. From 1993 to 1996 he lectured at the University of Reading for the Physics Student Council.

From 2001 to 2005, Wilson directed the CCLRC Center for Molecular Structure and Dynamics. In 2003 he took over the Regius professorship, initially on the condition that he could keep his role in the RAL. In 2004, Wilson finally left the RAL after 19 years. However, his ties to research with neutron sources remained strong. In 2004 he obtained a D.Sc. from Glasgow University in Chemistry. from 2009 to 2010, Wilson also headed the university's chemistry department. In 2010, Wilson left Glasgow to work as Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bath .

research

Following Wilson's career, his research mixes physical issues with chemical syntheses. Parts of his work deal with experimental physics as well as solid state physics , condensed matter , the properties of atoms , molecules and optics , often with the aim of producing new materials or known materials more efficiently.

The chemical side of his research can be found in materials research, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry and solid-state chemistry . He is interested in the structural evolution of organic materials, co-crystallization as a method for new materials, proton migration, optically active and non-linear optically active substances, metastable solids, research into crystallization, in particular continuous crystallization processes as the basis for industrial production of chemicals.

His research developed further in the direction of neutron and X-ray diffraction for material discovery. The motivation was to develop chemicals and processes in which the chemicals built themselves up, similar to crystals. At the same time, of course, the properties of the target materials should also be checked at the macro and molecular level.

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  • 2017, Co-crystallization and phase transition: from pharmaceuticals to thermochromics (with Anuradha Pallipurath; Jonathan Skelton; Patrick McArdle and others)
  • 2017, Imaging H-atom behavior on I19, Diamond Light Source (with Lucy Saunders, Harriott Nowell and Dave Allan)
  • 2014, Towards continuous crystallization of layered and disordered solid forms (with Anneke Klapwijk and Lynne Thomas)
  • 2014, Tuning color in multi-component complexes: Molecular disorder as a design tool (with Charlotte Jones and Lynne H Thomas)
  • 2014, Single crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction for imaging hydrogen bond evolution (with Lucy Saunders, Harriott Nowell, Lynne H Thomas and others)
  • 2012, Tautomerization and Polymorphism in Molecular Complexes of Piroxicam with Mono-Substituted Benzoic Acids ; (with Lynne H Thomas)
  • 2012, 4-Phenoxyphenol: A Porous Molecular Material (with Lynne H. Thomas, Elaine Cheung, Andrew OF Jones, Andras A Kallay, Marie-Helene Lemee-Cailleau and Garry J McIntyre)
  • 2011, Paracetamol Form II: an elusive polymorph through facile multi-component crystallization routes (with Lynne H Thomas, Craig Wales and Lihua Zhao)
  • 2010, Cisplatin - Polymorphism and New Structural Insights into an Important Chemotherapeutic Drug (with Valeska P. Ting, Marc Schmidtmann, and Mark T. Weller)
  • 2010, Bifurcated hydrogen bonded supramolecular units in molecular complexes of picolines with chloranilic acid (with M Adam, A Parkin and LH Thomas)
  • 2009, Crystallography of hydrogen-containing compounds: realizing the potential of neutron powder diffraction (with Mark T. Weller, Paul F. Henry and Valeska P. Ting)
  • 2009, Temperature-induced Proton Transfer in the 1: 1 Adduct formed between Squaric Acid and 4,4'-Bipyridine (with David MS Martins, Derek S. Middlemiss, Colin R. Pulham, Mark T. Weller, Paul F. Henry, Norman Shankland, Kenneth Shankland, William G. Marshall, Richard M. Ibberson, Stephen Moggach, Michaela Brunelli and Carole A. Morrison)
  • 2007, Towards Proton Transfer in Hydrogen Bonded Molecular Complexes: Joint Experimental and Theoretical Modeling and an Energy Scale for Polymorphism (with M. Schmidtmann, MJ Gutmann and DS Middlemiss)
  • 2005, Towards understanding mobile proton behavior from first principles: the short hydrogen bond in urea-phosphoric acid (with CA Morrison, MM Siddick and PJ Camp)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f unknown: Prof. Chick Wilson. In: Website of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, accessed November 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Regius Chair of Chemistry 200th Anniversary Celebration. The University of Glasgow Celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Regius Chair of Chemistry. In: University of Glasgow website. University of Glasgow, 2017, accessed November 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f unknown: Professor Chick Wilson DSc, FInstP, FRSC. Faculty of Science Associate Dean (Research). In: University of Bath website. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, chick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist, physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century