John Simons
John Philip Simons (born April 20, 1934 ) is an English chemist ( photo chemistry ).
Simons graduated from Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and received his PhD under Ronald George Wreyford Norrish . He was then an ICI Fellow at the University of Birmingham in 1960 and became a Reader in 1975 and Professor of Photochemistry in 1979. In 1981 he became Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Nottingham and in 1993 Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and Fellow of Exeter College. In 1999 he retired.
Simons studied the dynamics of photochemical reactions using a high-speed rotor and crossed molecular beams at supersonic speeds.
He was a pioneer of Doppler-resolved polarized laser spectroscopy, with which he obtained three-dimensional images of molecular reactions (stereodynamics). In addition, he combined infrared and UV laser spectroscopy and quantum mechanical model calculations to investigate the three-dimensional structure and interaction of small biomolecules (especially carbohydrates and peptides) free from external disturbances in the environment.
In 2007 he was awarded the Davy Medal and since 1989 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose council he was a member from 1999 to 2000, and since 1979 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was Secretary and President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1993 to 1995. He was Tilden (1983), Polyani (1996), Spiers (1999) and Liversidge (2007) Lecturer at the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 1993 Chemical Dynamics Lecturer, Davy Lecturer at the Royal Society (2001) and Miller Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Birmingham. In 1997 he became an honorary citizen of Toulouse.
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| SURNAME | Simons, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simons, John Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1934 |