Anthony Cheetham facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sir Anthony Cheetham FRS
Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2005
Born	Anthony Kevin Cheetham (1946-11-16) 16 November 1946 (age 78) Stockport, England
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Scientific career
Fields	Materials Chemistry
Institutions	University of Oxford University of California, Santa Barbara University of Cambridge National University of Singapore
Thesis	Structural Studies on Defect Compounds and Solid Solutions (1971)
Doctoral students	Paul Attfield Clare Grey Matthew Rosseinsky Russell E. Morris

Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham (born 16 November 1946) is a famous British scientist. He studies how different materials are made and how they work. From 2012 to 2017, he was a leader at the Royal Society, a very old and important science group.

Learning and Schooling

Anthony Cheetham went to Stockport Grammar School. He then studied chemistry at St Catherine's College, Oxford starting in 1965. He finished his first degree with top grades in 1969.

In the same year, he began working on his advanced degree, called a doctorate. He studied the structures of certain compounds. He earned his doctorate from Wadham College, Oxford in 1972.

His Science Career

After finishing his doctorate, Sir Anthony became a research fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1974, he started teaching about how chemicals form crystals. Later, in 1990, he became a special professor in materials.

A year later, Cheetham moved to the United States. He became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. There, he was the first director of their Materials Research Laboratory.

In 2007, he moved back to the United Kingdom. He became the Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at University of Cambridge. He held this important job until 2017. Today, he is still a respected researcher at Cambridge. He also teaches as a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. Plus, he is a research professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

What He Researches

Sir Anthony Cheetham studies inorganic and hybrid materials. These are materials that don't come from living things, or are a mix of different types. He looks at how to create them, how to understand their properties, and what they can be used for.

He helped create new ways to study materials made of tiny crystals. He used these methods to learn about zeolite catalysts. These are materials that speed up chemical reactions. He also studied molecular sieves and optical materials, which interact with light.

Right now, he is interested in special materials called metal-organic frameworks and hybrid perovskites. These materials have many possible uses, like in solar cells or for storing gases.

Some of his former students who also became important scientists include Paul Attfield, Clare Grey, Matthew Rosseinsky, and Russell E. Morris.

Awards and Special Recognitions

Sir Anthony Cheetham has received many awards for his work. Here are some of them:

• 1982: Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• 1988: Solid State Chemistry Award from the Royal Society.
• 1994: Chosen as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). This is a very high honor for scientists.
• 1997: Blaise Pascal Chair, a special research position in Paris, France.
• 1999: Chosen as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
• 2001: Became an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
• 2006: Received an honorary doctorate from the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University in France.
• 2011: Received the Platinum Medal from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
• 2011: Became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.
• 2012: Won the Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• 2014: Received the Chemical Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Chemists.
• 2014: Became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 2017: Received the Basolo Medal from Northwestern University, USA.
• 2017: Became an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
• 2018: Became an Honorary Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science.
• 2019: Became a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.

In 2020, Sir Anthony Cheetham was made a knight. This was for his great contributions to materials chemistry, science in the UK, and sharing science with the world.