Richard Compton

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Richard Compton

Richard Guy Compton (born March 10, 1955 in Scunthorpe , United Kingdom ) is a British chemistry professor and Aldrichian Praelector at the University of Oxford . He is also a tutorial fellow at St John's College and has a research group based at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University.

Life

Richard Compton is studying chemistry at University College Oxford after previously being rejected for mathematics . After completing his studies, he began a doctorate in John Albery's group , which he completed in 1980. After a stay at Queen's College in Oxford, he got a lectureship at the University of Liverpool in 1981 . In 1985 he returned to Oxford to teach and research at St John's College.

Richard Compton was also a CAS visiting professor at the Institute of Physical Sciences in Hefei and is an honorary professor at Sichuan University . He also holds honorary doctorates from the Estonian Agricultural University and the National W. N. Karasin University of Kharkiv and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry , the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the International Society of Electrochemistry

He is also a member of Academia Europaea and founding and managing editor of at Elsevier laid Electrochemistry Communications ( impact factor = 4.8).

In a profile in applied chemistry , he names Mikhail Bulgakov as his favorite author, Sichuan Hot Pot as his favorite food, and the music of Queen as his favorite music.

Research areas

Compton works in a vast area of ​​research that encompasses both basic and applied electrochemistry and analytics, including nanochemical aspects.

Publications and patents

In the course of his career Richard Compton published more than 1,500 scientific papers ( h -index = 96), which, minus his own citations, were cited more than 37,000 times. He is co-inventor of patents on 25 different topics such as pH value measurements , gas detection or the starch of garlic and chilli in food . Richard Compton is also the author of the following academic books:

  • “ Electrode Potentials, ” Oxford University Press, 1996, reissued in 1998 and 2002, with GHW Sanders.
  • " Foundations of Physical Chemistry, " Oxford University Press, reprinted in 1996, 1999 and 2005 with A. Rodger and C. Lawrence. The Japanese translation was published in 1997, the Spanish translation in 2001.
  • " Foundations of Physical Chemistry: Worked Examples, " Oxford University Press, 1999, with NS Lawrence and JD Wadhawan.
  • “ Understanding Voltammetry ”, World Scientific, 1st Edition, 2007, co-authorship with CE Banks. 2nd edition, published in January 2011. The Russian translation was published in 2015. 3rd edition published in 2018.
  • “ AG Stromberg: First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen. Letters from the GULAG and a History of Electroanalysis in the USSR ”with AS Kabakaev, MJ Stawpert, GG Wildgoose and EA Zakharova, Imperial College Press, published March 2011.
  • “ Understanding Voltammetry: Problems and Solutions, ” with C. Batchelor-McAuley and EJF Dickinson, Imperial College Press, published February 2012.
  • “ Understanding Voltammetry: Simulation of Electrode Processes ”, with E. Laborda and KR Ward, Imperial College Press, published January 2014.

Awards and prizes (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Compton Group - news 2015. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ Joseph Wang, Neil V. Rees: Professor Richard Compton's 60th Birthday . In: Electroanalysis . tape 27 , no. 4 , April 2015, p. 844-845 , doi : 10.1002 / elan.201580033 ( wiley.com [accessed January 5, 2020]).
  3. ^ Electrochemistry Communications . ( elsevier.com [accessed January 5, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Richard G. Compton . In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition . tape 54 , no. 46 , November 9, 2015, p. 13498-13499 , doi : 10.1002 / anie.201505530 ( wiley.com [accessed January 5, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b RSC Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science 2018 Winner. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Alessandro Volta Medal. In: ECS. Retrieved January 5, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Sir George Stokes Award 2011 Winner. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Compton, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Compton, Richard Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Scunthorpe , UK