Richard Catlow

Sir Charles Richard Arthur Catlow FRS FRSC FInstP (born 24 April 1947) is a British chemist and professor at University College London and Cardiff University.[6][3][7][8][9] Previously, he was Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory (1998-2007),[10] and Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution.[1][11] Since 2016, he has served as the foreign secretary of the Royal Society.[12][13][14][15]

Sir Richard Catlow

FRS FRSC FInstP
Born
Charles Richard Arthur Catlow

(1947-04-24) 24 April 1947[1]
Simonstone, Lancashire[2]
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
Physics
Materials Science
Crystallography
Computational science[3]
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Royal Institution
ThesisDefect structures in fluorite crystals (1973)
Doctoral advisorA. B. Lidiard[4]
Doctoral studentsRobin Grimes,[5] Saiful Islam
Websiteucl.ac.uk/chemistry/people/professor-c-richard-catlow-frs

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.[4][16]

Career and research

Catlow has developed and applied computer models to solid state and materials chemistry.[15] By combining his computational methods with experiments, Catlow has made contributions to areas as diverse as catalysis and mineralogy.[15]

His approach has advanced understanding of how defects (missing or extra atoms) in the structure of solids can result in non-stoichiometric compounds.[15] Such compounds have special electrical or chemical properties since their contributing elements are present in slightly different proportions to those predicted by chemical formulae.[15]

Catlow’s work has offered insight into mechanisms of industrial catalysts, especially involving microporous materials and metal oxides.[15] 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.[15]

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.[17] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004[1] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). In 2020, he was awarded the Faraday Lectureship Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.[18] Catlow was knighted in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to leadership in science and research.[19][20]

References
  1. Anon (2017). "Catlow, Prof. (Charles) Richard (Arthur)". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10453. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  3. Richard Catlow publications indexed by Google Scholar
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 November 2011. Retrieved 2 December 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. Richard Catlow publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Professor Richard Catlow FRS". Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  10. "Charles Richard Arthur Catlow (1947-)". Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. "Council". The Royal Society. The Royal Society. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  13. "Thomas Young Centre". Thomasyoungcentre.org. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  14. "Richard Catlow". Chem.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  15. Anon (2004). "Professor Richard Catlow FRS". royalsociety. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. "FHI". Fhi-berlin.mpg.de. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  18. "Faraday Division open award: Faraday Lectureship Prize". Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  19. "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B2.
  20. "No. 63135". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 9 October 2020. p. B2.
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