Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

The Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry is the University of Cambridge's chemistry department. It was formed from a merger in the early 1980s of two separate departments that had moved into the Lensfield Road building decades earlier: the Department of Physical Chemistry (originally led by Professor Ronald Norrish FRS, Nobel Laureate; the department was previously located near the Old Cavendish in Free School Lane - see photo) and the Department of Chemistry (that included theoretical chemistry and which was led by Lord Alexander R. Todd FRS, Nobel Laureate) respectively. Research interests in the department cover a broad of chemistry ranging from molecular biology to geophysics.[1] The department is located on the Lensfield Road, next to the Panton Arms on the South side of Cambridge. As of 2015 the department is home to around 200 postdoctoral research staff, over 250 postgraduate students, around sixty academic staff.[2] In December 2020, it was renamed for 30 years in recognition of a donation from Yusuf Hamied, an alumnus of the department.[3][4]

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
The main entrance of the Chemistry Department in Cambridge
Head of DepartmentJames Keeler
Academic staff
60
Location
Cambridge
,
United Kingdom
Websitewww.ch.cam.ac.uk

Research

The Department’s research is organised around five Research Interest Groups (RIGs):[5]

In addition the Chemistry of Health Building houses the Centre for Misfolding Diseases, the Chemistry of Health Incubator and the Molecular Production and Characterisation Centre (MPACC).[6]

Old Physical Chemistry Laboratory Cambridge

Senior Staff: Professors

As of 2015 the department employs 28 Professors[2] including several Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) and Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) shown below:

Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci is John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology
Sir Alan Fersht FRS at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology is Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Peter Wothers, a teaching fellow in the department, delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2012.
  1. Professor Chris Abell FRS FMedSci[7]
  2. Professor Ali Alavi FRS
  3. Professor Stuart Althorpe
  4. Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS[8][9][10]
  5. Professor Jason Chin[11]
  6. Professor Jane Clarke FRS FMedSci[12][13]
  7. Professor Chris Dobson FRS FMedSci[14]
  8. Professor Stephen Elliott
  9. Professor Sir Alan Fersht FRS[15]
  10. Professor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS[16]
  11. Professor Matthew Gaunt
  12. Professor Robert Glen
  13. Professor Jonathan M. Goodman[17]
  14. Professor Clare Grey FRS[18]
  15. Professor Chris Hunter FRS[19]
  16. Professor Bill Jones
  17. Professor Rod Jones
  18. Professor David Klenerman FRS FMedSci
  19. Professor Steven V. Ley FRS[20]
  20. Professor Jonathan Nitschke[21]
  21. Professor Ian Paterson FRS[22]
  22. Professor John A. Pyle FRS[23]
  23. Professor Jeremy Sanders FRS[24]
  24. Professor Michiel Sprik
  25. Professor David Spring
  26. Professor Michele Vendruscolo[25]
  27. Professor David J. Wales FRS FRSC
  28. Professor Dominic Wright

Emeritus Professors

The department is also home to fifteen emeritus professors,[26] pursuing their research interests after their formal retirement including:

Sir David King (Emeritus) was Chief Scientific Adviser to the governments of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 2000 to 2007.[27]
Peter Murray-Rust (Emeritus) speaking at Wikimania 2014.
  1. Professor Alan R. Battersby[28]
  2. Professor A. David Buckingham FRS[29]
  3. Professor Paul Davies
  4. Professor Ian Fleming FRS[30]
  5. Professor Ray Freeman FRS[31]
  6. Professor Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS[32]
  7. Professor Brian F. G. Johnson FRS[33]
  8. Professor David King FRS[27][34]
  9. Professor Tony Kirby FRS[35]
  10. Professor Jacek Klinowski[36][37]
  11. Professor Richard Lambert
  12. Professor Ian Smith FRS[38]
  13. Professor Jim Staunton FRS[39]
  14. Professor Anthony Stone[40]
  15. Professor Brian Thrush FRS

References
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