• Source: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

The Department of Chemistry is the chemistry department of the University of Oxford, England, which is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division.




Overview


The department has several laboratories in the Science Area, Oxford:




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In Mansfield Road

Chemical Biology Laboratory
Chemistry Research Laboratory




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In South Parks Road

Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (ICL)
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (PTCL)
Dyson Perrins Laboratory (DP) – research laboratory closed




History


Chemistry has a long history at Oxford. The early pioneer of chemistry Robert Boyle and his assistant Robert Hooke began working in Oxford in the mid-seventeenth century. A chemistry laboratory was built in the basement of the Old Ashmolean Building in 1683, which was used until 1860. Chemical research was also conducted in laboratories set up in individual colleges – Christ Church, Oxford (1767), Magdalen College, Oxford (Daubeny Laboratory, 1848), Balliol College, Oxford (1853, later joined with Trinity College, Oxford to become the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories), Queen's College, Oxford (1900), and Jesus College, Oxford (1907).

Chemistry was first recognized as a separate discipline at Oxford with the building of a laboratory attached to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, opening in 1860. The laboratory is a small octagonal structure to the right of the museum, built in stone in the Victorian Gothic style. The design was based on the Abbot's Kitchen at Glastonbury and it adopted the same name despite being a laboratory. The building was one of the first ever purpose-built chemical laboratories anywhere and was extended in 1878. The Abbot's Kitchen in Oxford was expanded considerably in 1957 to become the main Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (ICL). The Dyson Perrins Laboratory opened in 1916 and was the centre of the Department of Organic Chemistry until 2003 when it was replaced by the Chemistry Research Laboratory. The Physical Chemistry Laboratory replaced the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories in 1941, and its east wing completed in 1959. The physical and theoretical chemistry departments merged in 1994 and the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory became its base in 1995.
A number of professors and scientists who worked in the department had won the Nobel Prize; they include Frederick Soddy for his work on radioactivity with Ernest Rutherford, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood for his work on chemical kinetics, and Dorothy Hodgkin on crystallography. Among the notable achievements by professors in the department are the development of the Periodic Table by William Odling, work on solid state chemistry by John Stuart Anderson and John B. Goodenough (winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), and bioinorganic chemistry by Robert Williams.




Notable staff and alumni



Heads of department have included:

Mark Brouard 2015-2023
Timothy Softley FRS 2011 to 2015
Stephen G. Davies 2006-2011
Graham Richards FRS 1997 to 2006
Current academics in the Department of Chemistry include:

Ed Anderson
Harry Anderson FRS
Fraser Armstrong FRS
Hagan Bayley FRS
Tom Brown FRSE
David Clary FRS
Richard G. Compton
William I. F. David FRS
Ben G. Davis FRS
Andrew Goodwin
Veronique Gouverneur FRS
David Hodgson
Peter J. Hore
Madhavi Krishnan
Iain McCulloch FRS
John McGrady
Susan Perkin
Carol Robinson FRS
Christopher Schofield FRS
Christiane Timmel
Claire Vallance
Charlotte Williams FRS
Other notable staff and alumni include:

John Albery FRS
Peter Atkins
Jack Baldwin FRS
Ronnie Bell FRS
Arthur Birch FRS
Edmund Bowen FRS
Charles Coulson FRS
John Cornforth FRS
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin FRS
Katherine Holt, Professor at University College London
Frederick Dainton FRS
John B. Goodenough ForMemRS
Malcolm Green FRS
Andrew Hamilton FRS
Rita Harradence
Cyril Hinshelwood FRS
Ewart Jones FRS
Jeremy Knowles FRS
Jack Linnett FRS
Rex Richards FRS
Robert Robinson FRS
John Rowlinson FRS
John Sutherland FRS
Margaret Thatcher FRS
Robert K. Thomas FRS
Harold Thompson FRS
R. J. P. Williams FRS




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ikatan kovalen
• Nonlogam
• Asam askorbat
• Logam alkali
• Tabel periodik
• Logam berat
• Hidrogen
• Belerang
• Whidden Lectures
• Sjamsul Arifin Achmad
• Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
• Oxford University Museum of Natural History
• Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford
• Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
• Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
• Yusuf Hamied 1702 Professor of Chemistry
• University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education
• Department of Materials, University of Oxford
• Yimon Aye
• Department of Physics, University of Oxford