John Albery

Wyndham John Albery ( April 5, 1936 - December 3, 2013 ) was a British chemist ( physical chemistry ).

Albery attended Winchester College and studied at Oxford University (Balliol College), where he received his doctorate under Ronald Bell . He became a Fellow of the University College in 1963, where he was Tutor for Admissions from 1968 to 1975 and later Dean. In 1977 he became Professor of Physical Chemistry at Imperial College London , but returned to Oxford in 1989 as a Master's degree from University College, which he remained until 1997. Upon retirement, he became an Honorary Fellow of the College and accepted a research position at Imperial College.

Albery was into electrochemistry . In the 1960s he was involved in the development of the fast rotating disk electrode method to measure the kinetics of fast reactions in solutions. Later he dealt with electrochemical sensors and enzyme kinetics, among other things. Albery was known for his humor. In the foreword of his 1975 book on electrode kinetics, he admitted that most students were disgusted with electrochemistry and that its concepts appeared to them like the torture tools of the Inquisition.

Albery came from a family of actors and appeared as an amateur actor himself in Oxford and also wrote for the BBC television satire show That was the week that was in the early 1960s .

In 1994 he received Bill Clinton , who had previously studied at University College, on his visit to Oxford. In the 1970s he ran a musical theater with Leslie Mitchell at his college and wrote reviews of chemists, for example. He was known in college for parties and jokes.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1985).

Fonts

with ML Hitchman: Ring Disc Electrodes. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971
Electrode Kinetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1975

Web links

Obituary in the Daily Telegraph

Individual evidence

↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of John Wyndham Albery at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018th
↑ The high point of its success was that in 1975 the college led the Norrington Table, the comparative classification of Oxford colleges
↑ One of his ancestors was the playwright James Albery (1838-1889) and his wife Mary Moore was a well-known actress who later married Sir Charles Wyndham , founder of Wyndham's Theater and the New Theater (later Albery)

personal data
SURNAME	Albery, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Albery, Wyndham John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1936
DATE OF DEATH	3rd December 2013

[1] raphical data, publications and Academic pedigree of John Wyndham Albery at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018th

[2] The high point of its success was that in 1975 the college led the Norrington Table, the comparative classification of Oxford colleges

[3] One of his ancestors was the playwright James Albery (1838-1889) and his wife Mary Moore was a well-known actress who later married Sir Charles Wyndham , founder of Wyndham's Theater and the New Theater (later Albery)