Professor of Research Chemistry Martyn Poliakoff
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus has been invited by the Royal Society to host the Rutherford lecture.
About the Royal Society
Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society’s fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. Its Fellows and Foreign Members, who are elected for life on the basis of scientific excellence, have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. Today there are approximately 1,500 Fellows and Foreign Members, including more than 80 Nobel Laureates.
The Rutherford lecture will be given by Professor Martyn Poliakoff, Research Professor of Chemistry the University of Nottingham UK (http://royalsociety.org/people/martyn-poliakoff/). The topic of the lecture will be Engineering a better world through green chemistry.
About Martyn Poliakoff
Professor Martyn Poliakoff studied at King's College, Cambridge,B.A (1969) and Ph.D. (1973). In 1972, he was appointed Research/Senior Research Officer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1979, he moved to a Lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham where he is now a Professor of Research Chemistry.
In addition, he is Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Moscow State University. From 1994-99, he held an EPSRC/Royal Academy of Engineering Clean Technology Fellowship at Nottingham. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2002), of the RSC (2002) and of the IChemE (2004). He was awarded CBE (2008) for "Services to Sciences", made Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia (2008) and Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011). He is a Council Member of the IChemE and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society (2011-16) His research interests are focussed on supercritical fluids, continuous reactions and their applications to Green Chemistry.
Professor Poliakoff is also the host behind the popular and award winning Periodic Table of the Elements videos.
Event details
- Event: Royal Society Rutherford Lecture
- Date: 18th Oct 2012
- Time: 14:00 (arrive at 13:00)
Location: Great Hall, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus (The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia)
This event is by invitation only, for more information please contact Zabidah Yusof at Zabidah.Yusof@nottingham.edu.my.