Peter Wothers
Peter David Wothers is a British chemist.
Wothers studied at Cambridge University , where he received his doctorate in 1996 with AJ Kirby with a dissertation on stereochemistry and conformational analysis in organic chemistry ( An examination of the anomeric effect ). He is a teaching fellow at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. There he is Director of Studies in Chemistry.
He co-authored the first edition of the organic chemistry textbook by Jonathan Clayden , Nick Greeves, Stuart Warren .
In the UK he is known for popularizing chemistry. He was a contributor to the Discovery Channel series "The Big Experiment" and in 2012 gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture (The Modern Alchemist). He spent a long time creating problems for the International Chemistry Olympiad and organized the 41st in Cambridge in 2009. Among other things, he became an MBE (2014) and received the Nyham Prize for Education of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013 . In Cambridge he received the Pilkington Teaching Prize in 2002. With fellow teachers, he organized the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge for students.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry .
Fonts
- with Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves, Stuart Warren: Organic Chemistry, Oxford University Press 2001
- with James Keeler: Chemical Structure and Reactivity: an integrated approach, Oxford University Press 2008
- with James Keeler: Why chemical reactions happen, Oxford University Press 2003
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wothers, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wothers, Peter David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |