Fraser Armstrong
Fraser Andrew Armstrong (* 1951 in Cambridge , United Kingdom ) is a British chemist at the University of Oxford .
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Armstrong earned a bachelor's degree in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Geoff Sykes in 1978. at the University of Leeds . With a grant from the Royal Society , he then worked with Peter Kroneck at the University of Konstanz , before doing a postdoctoral fellowship with Ralph Wilkins at New Mexico State University and with Helmut Beinert at the Institute for Enzyme Research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . Another post as a postdoctoral fellow led him in 1981 to Allen Hill at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford , where he again worked for the Royal Society as an independent research fellow from 1983 .
After a professorship at the University of California, Irvine (1989–1993), Armstrong is now (as of 2013) Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford . He belongs to St John's College .
Armstrong did pioneering work in the field of the electrochemistry of thin layers of proteins , through which a particularly precise thermodynamic and kinetic control of redox enzymes is possible - using the example of hydrogenases as a key enzyme in modern energy technology . He is considered to be the inventor of a technology in which solar radiation is used using metalloenzymes to convert water into hydrogen or to bind carbon dioxide .
Awards (selection)
- 1998 European Medal for Biological Inorganic Chemistry
- 2000 Royal Society of Chemistry award for Inorganic Biochemistry
- 2004 Max Planck 'Frontiers in Biological Chemistry' Award
- 2006 Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Interdisciplinary Chemistry
- 2008 member of the Royal Society
- 2010 Joseph Chatt Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2012 Davy Medal of the Royal Society
Fonts (selection)
- Bioinorganic chemistry , Springer 1990, ISBN 3-540-51574-7
- Energy… beyond oil , with Katherine M. Blundell, Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 0-19-920996-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fraser A. Armstrong, H. Allen O. Hill, Nicholas J. Walton: Direct electrochemistry of redox proteins. In: Accounts of Chemical Research. 21, 1988, pp. 407-413, doi: 10.1021 / ar00155a004 .
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Fraser Armstrong at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018th
- ↑ a b Davy Medal of the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved December 25, 2013.
- ↑ a b Joseph Chatt Award Winner 2010 at the Royal Society of Chemistry (rsc.org); Retrieved December 25, 2013.
- ^ Fellows of the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved December 25, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Armstrong, Fraser |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Armstrong, Fraser Andrew (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist at the University of Oxford |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge , UK |