Martyn Poliakoff

Martyn Poliakoff while shooting for Periodic Videos .

Sir Martyn Poliakoff , FRS, CBE (born December 16, 1947 ) is a British chemist. Since 1979 he has been teaching at the University of Nottingham , where he researches the chemical applications of supercritical fluids with a focus on green chemistry . Poliakoff gained popularity outside of his field of expertise through Brady Haran's video series Periodic Videos (originally The Periodic Table of Videos ) , which has been published on YouTube since 2008 .

He is the brother of the playwright Stephen Poliakoff .

Scientific career

Poliakoff studied at King's College , Cambridge , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1969 and his doctorate in 1973. The topic of his dissertation, supervised by Jim Turner , was the matrix isolation of large molecules.

Since 1972 he has been a Researcher / Senior Research Officer for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne . In 1979 he moved to Nottingham University as a lecturer , where he was promoted to Reader in 1985 and Professor of Chemistry in 1991.

Honors

• 2002 Fellow of the Royal Society
• 2004 Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers
• 2007 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• 2008 Fellow of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia
• 2010 Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society)
• 2011 Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2012 member of the Academia Europaea
• 2014 Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences
• 2015 Knight Bachelor investiture
• 2016 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2019 Flerov Prize
• 2019 Michael Faraday Prize of the Royal Society

Web links

• Martyn Poliakoff on the University of Nottingham website
• Periodic videos

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} University of Nottingham, School of Chemistry: Martyn Poliakoff.Retrieved November 17, 2013.
2. ↑ Periodic Videos: The Professor talks about the Periodic Table of Videos Published on YouTube on May 31, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
3. ^ Rob Sharp: Poliakoff's big brother is new star of science. In: The Independent. June 11, 2011, accessed September 5, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Martyn Poliakoff. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed January 6, 2018 (Russian). 
5. ^ Membership directory: Martyn Poliakoff. Academia Europaea, accessed January 6, 2018 . 
6. ^ Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff on the Royal Society website
7. ↑ Grrl Scientist: Arise, Sir Martyn, the "mad professor" of YouTube. In: theguardian.com. December 31, 2014, accessed March 25, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Video of the investiture on June 12, 2015
9. ↑ Fellows of the AAAS: Martyn Poliakoff. (No longer available online.) American Association for the Advancement of Science, archived from the original on February 2, 2018 ; accessed on February 2, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.