Graham Hutchings

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Graham John Hutchings CBE (* 1951 ) is a British chemist . He is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cardiff and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute. Hutchings is known for research on gold nanoparticles as catalysts .

Hutchings studied chemistry at University College London with a doctorate under Charles A. Vernon in 1975. He then worked at ICI in the petrochemicals department. In 1981 he was seconded to the AECI in South Africa, where his interest in gold as a catalyst began. From 1984 he was at the University of Witwatersrand and then at the Leverhulme Center for Innovative Catalysis in Liverpool . From 1997 he was a professor at Cardiff University.

In addition to gold catalysts, he works on the design of selective catalysts for hydrogenation and oxidation and studies them using in situ spectroscopy and he develops enantioselective heterogeneous catalysts (especially chirally modified zeolites ).

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2009 . In 2010 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2012 he received the Alwin Mittasch Medal from DECHEMA (Society for Chemical Technology and Biotechnology) with Takashi Tatsumi . Hutchings received the award for pioneering work in gold catalysis. In 2011 he received the Henry J. Albert Award and in 2013 the Davy Medal . He is President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2012). In 2016, Hutchings became the first Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cardiff. In 2018 he is Faraday Lecturer .

Hutchings is Associate Editor of the Journal of Catalysis.

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  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Graham Hutchings at academictree.org, accessed on February 12 2018th
  2. ^ Membership directory: Graham J. Hutchings. Academia Europaea, accessed December 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Dechema Prize 2012
  4. ↑ Cardiff University chemistry professor's royal title ; Announcement on BBC Online December 9th.
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SURNAME Hutchings, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutchings, Graham J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951