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Sir Charles Richard Arthur Catlow FRS FRSC FInstP FLSW (born 24 April 1947) is a British chemist and professor at University College London and Cardiff University. Previously, he was Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory (1998–2007), and Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution. Since 2016, he has served as the foreign secretary of the Royal Society., and since 2021 as President of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP).

Education

He earned a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974, from St John's College, University of Oxford.

Career and research

Catlow has developed and applied computer models to solid state and materials chemistry. By combining his computational methods with experiments, Catlow has made contributions to areas as diverse as catalysis and mineralogy.

His approach has advanced understanding of how defects (missing or extra atoms) in the structure of solids can result in non-stoichiometric compounds. Such compounds have special electrical or chemical properties since their contributing elements are present in slightly different proportions to those predicted by chemical formulae.

Catlow's work has offered insight into mechanisms of industrial catalysts, especially involving microporous materials and metal oxides. In structural chemistry and mineralogy, simulation methods are now routinely used to predict the structures of complex solids and silicates respectively, following Catlow's demonstrations of their power.

Awards and honours

In December 2014, Catlow was the winner of the Gerhard Ertl Lecture at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). In 2017, Catlow was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. In 2020, he was awarded the Faraday Lectureship Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Catlow was knighted in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to leadership in science and research.

References

1. ^ Richard Catlow publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. ^ Catlow, Charles Richard Arthur (1973). Defect structures in fluorite crystals. Jisc.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500400761. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.450933.
3. Grimes, Robin William (1988). Quantum mechanical and classical modelling of defects in metal oxides. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Keele. OCLC 556710010. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.375921.
4. ^ Anon (2017). "Catlow, Prof. (Charles) Richard (Arthur)". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10453. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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16. Partnership (IAP), the InterAcademy. "Richard Catlow joins Depei Liu as IAP Co-President". www.interacademies.org. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
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18. "FHI". Fhi-berlin.mpg.de. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
19. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Richard Catlow". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
20. "Faraday Division open award: Faraday Lectureship Prize". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
21. "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B2.
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• 1947 births
• Living people
• British chemists
• Fellows of the Royal Society
• Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Fellows of the Institute of Physics
• Knights Bachelor
• Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
• Academics of University College London
• Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales