Peter Edwards

British chemist

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Also known as Peter Philip Edwards · Peter P. Edwards

Born: June 30, 1949
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Birthplace: Liverpool
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Occupation: chemist
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, physicist
, university teacher
Education: University of Salford
Employer: University of Oxford
Languages spoken, written or signed: English

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Peter Philip Edwards FRSC FRS is a British Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and former Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Edwards is the recipient of the Corday-Morgan Medal (1985), the Tilden Lectureship (1993–94) and Liversidge Award (1999) of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and was awarded the 2003 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his distinguished work as a solid state chemist. He has made seminal contributions to fields including superconductivity and the behaviour of metal nanoparticles, and has greatly advanced our understanding of the phenomenology of the metal-insulator transition". In 2009 Edwards was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and he was elected Einstein Professor for 2011 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was awarded the Bakerian Lecture by the Royal Society "in recognition of decisive contributions to the physics, chemistry and materials science of condensed matter, including work on the metal-insulator transition". In the spring of 2012 he was elected International Member of the American Philosophical Society; one of only four people from the UK in that year to be awarded this honour across all subjects and disciplines. Later in 2012 he was awarded the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers Materials Science Venture Prize for his work on new, low-cost, high-performance conducting oxide coatings for solar cells and optoelectronic materials. In the Autumn of 2013 he was elected Member of Academia Europaea, and he was elected as a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

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Sex or gender: male
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Academia Europaea(since 2013) affiliation: AE section Chemical Sciences
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German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina(since 2009) membership number: 7261
Royal Society of London(March 14, 1996)
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Awards: Royal Society Bakerian Medal(2012)
Hughes Medal(2003)
Fellow of the Royal Society(March 14, 1996)
Tilden Prize(1993)
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Liversidge Award(1990)
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Corday-Morgan Prize(1985)
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society Bakerian Medal
Given name: Peter
Philip
Family name: Edwards

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