John Simons (chemist)

John Philip Simons is a British physical chemist known for his research in photochemistry and photophysics, molecular reaction dynamics and the spectroscopy of biological molecules. He was professor of physical chemistry at the University of Nottingham (1981–93) and Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1993–99).

Education

Simons studied at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1955. His PhD is from Cambridge, under the supervision of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish. ==Career==

Career

Simons first worked at the University of Birmingham, successively holding positions as an ICI Fellow (1960), lecturer (1961–67), He retired in 1999. ==Research==

Research

Simons' initial research at the University of Birmingham investigated the dynamics of molecular photodisassociation. ==Awards and honours==

Awards and honours

Simons was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1979, and served as honorary secretary and president of the society's Faraday Division Other awards include the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Prize (1982–3), Chemical Dynamics Award Spiers Memorial Award (1999) and Liversidge Award (2007). He held a visiting Miller Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2005, a special edition of the journal Molecular Physics was published to honour Simons' seventieth birthday, the previous year. ==Publications==

Publications

• Photochemistry and Spectroscopy (Wiley-Interscience; 1971) () == References ==

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