Alan R. Katritzky
| Alan Katritzky | |
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| Born |
Alan Roy Katritzky 18 August 1928 London, England |
| Died | 10 February 2014 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | British, American |
| Institutions | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Notable awards | FRS[1] |
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Alan Roy Katritzky FRS[1] (18 August 1928 – 10 February 2014) was a British-born American chemist, latterly working at the University of Florida.[2]
Education
Alan Katritzky gained both his BA and DPhil from the University of Oxford between 1952 and 1958.
Career
Katritzky moved to Cambridge in 1959 to be a postdoctoral research fellow. From 1960 to 1963 he was a founding Fellow and Director of Studies at Churchill College, Cambridge.[3]
He became professor at the University of East Anglia in 1963. In 1980 he moved to the University of Florida, where he ran a research group of some 40 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows working on synthetic methods, QSPR (quantitative structure–property relationships) and other topics.
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Boulton, A. John (2015). "Alan Roy Katritzky 18 August 1928 — 10 February 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0001. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ↑ "Alan Roy Katritzky Obituary or Funeral Notice". Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ↑ "Professor Alan Katritzky FRS, 1928 – 2014". Retrieved 8 March 2014.