John Paul Attfield (born 1962)[3] is a British chemist who is Professor of Materials science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC).[4][5][6]
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| Born | John Paul Attfield 27 July 1962 |
| Education | Durham Johnston School[3] |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Thesis | The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anthony Cheetham[2] Peter Battle[2] |
| Website | www |
Education
editAttfield was educated at Durham Johnston School[3] in Durham, England and the University of Oxford where he was a student at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987 for his work on chemical crystallography supervised by Anthony Cheetham and Peter Battle.[2]
Career and research
editAttfield was appointed a lecturer,[when?] and subsequently a Reader[when?] at the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 2003.[1] Attfield's research focuses on synthesis, structural studies, and property measurements for electronic materials such as transition metal oxides. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[7] Attfield has made significant contributions to the study of the Verwey transition in magnetite, solving its charge ordering properties.
Paul Attfield has made distinctive contributions to the experimental understanding of structure in the solid-state, in particular pioneering the use of resonant X-ray scattering to study cation and valence ordering effects and characterising charge-order in strongly correlated systems such as magnetite.[8] He introduced the cation-size variance as a concept to rationalise and predict disorder effects, with a substantial impact on the study and preparation of technologically important materials.[8] He has synthesised and characterised new materials with novel electronic properties, including high-Tc superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and negative thermal expansion, including new developments in chemical synthesis.[8]
Awards and honours
editAttfield was awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 1991; the Corday-Morgan Medal of the RSC in 1998; and the Peter Day Award in 2013. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014 for “substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge”.[8] In 2016, Attield was awarded a Daiwa Adrian Prize, recognizing his work as part of a British-Japanese scientific collaboration,[9] and in 2022 he received the John B. Goodenough Award for materials chemistry from the Royal Chemistry Society, specifically "For transformative discoveries of new materials from high pressure synthesis and of novel electronic phenomena in solids."[10]
References
edit- ^ a b Anon (2013). "Peter Day Award 2013 Winner Professor J. Paul Attfield". rsc.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ a b c Attfield, John Paul (1987). The structural and magnetic properties of some transition metal compounds. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 863504840. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.379913.
- ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "Attfield, Prof. (John) Paul". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281968. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Prof. J. Paul Attfield - CSEC". csec.ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ Paul Attfield publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Anon (2017). "Professor J Paul Attfield FRS". University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017.
- ^ "UK Government Research Grants awarded to Paul Attfield by the EPSRC". gow.epsrc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 29 April 2017.
- ^ a b c d Anon (2014). "Professor J Paul Attfield FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. 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)
- ^ "Japan science link-ups receive £10,000 prizes". 11 August 2016.
- ^ "Materials Chemistry open prize: John B Goodenough Prize".
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