575K, and agreements
in place for the current and future years ensure that this will increase. The
academic staff raised from industrial sources additional research funding to
the value of over 100K p.a.which is not treated formally as
grant incomeDr R A Cox, Dr P B Davies, Dr D Husain, Dr R L Jones and Dr J A Pyle
Dr C Abell, Dr S Balasubramanian, Dr J M Blackburn, Prof A R Fersht, Dr A B Holmes, Dr S Jackson, Dr J H Keeler, Prof A J Kirby, Dr F J Leeper, Prof S V Ley, Prof J K M Sanders, Dr J B Spencer, Dr J Staunton, and Prof D H Williams.
Dr J P Attfield, Dr M J Duer, Dr S R Elliott, Dr A B Holmes, Dr D A Jefferson, Prof B F G Johnson, Dr W Jones, Dr J Klinowski, Dr S C Moratti, Dr P R Raithby, Dr T Rayment, Dr J H G Steinke and Dr W Zhou.
Dr J M Goodman, Dr J G Vinter and Dr D J Wales.
Dr J P Attfield, Dr P B Davies, Dr M J Duer, Dr S R Elliott, Prof R Freeman, Dr D Husain, Dr D A Jefferson, Dr J H Keeler, Prof D A King, Dr D Klenerman, Dr J Klinowski and Dr G Roberts.
Dr J P Attfield, Dr S R Elliott, Dr M Gerloch, Dr D A Jefferson, Dr W Jones, Prof B F G Johnson, Dr P R Raithby, Dr R Snaith.
Dr P B Davies, Dr D A Jefferson, Dr W Jones, Prof D A King, Dr D Klenerman, Dr R M Lambert, Dr T Rayment, Dr G Roberts, Dr A Wander and Dr W Zhou..
Dr C Abell, Dr S Balasubramanian, Dr I Fleming, Dr J M Goodman, Dr M Halcrow, Dr A B Holmes, Prof B F G Johnson, Dr W Jones, Prof A J Kirby, Dr F J Leeper, Prof S V Ley, Dr C M Martin, Dr M J Mays, Dr S C Moratti, Dr I Paterson, Dr P R Raithby, Dr J M Rawson, Prof J K M Sanders, Dr R Snaith, Dr J B Spencer, Dr J Staunton, Dr J H G Steinke, Dr S G Warren, and Dr D S Wright.
Dr R D Amos, Professor A D Buckingham, Professor N C Handy, Dr A.
MacDermott,
Dr I R McDonald, Dr A J Stone, Dr D J Wales. Dr P M W Gill
will join the staff in July 1996. Professor J-P Hansen will join the staff in
October 1997.
In the past four years, Professors Buckingham and Fersht have been elected Foreign Associates of the US National Academy of Sciences, an extremely rare distinction for research-active UK scientists; ProfessorBuckingham has also been elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr Fleming and Professor Sanders have been elected FRS, giving a total of eleven on the current staff, the others being Buckingham, Fersht, Freeman, Handy, Johnson, King, Kirby, Ley, Williams , while Dr Klinowski has been elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
During the same period, 16 of the current staff have been awarded at least 26 significant prizes. The most notable awards to senior staff include the August Wilhelm von Hoffman Memorial prize of the German Chemical Society ( Fersht ; and Sir Alan Battersby ); the Harrie Massey Medal of the Institute of Physics ( Buckingham ); 1997 Bakerian Lectureship of the Royal Society and 1996 Paul Janssen Prize for creativity in Organic Chemistry ( Ley ); 1993 Jubilee Lectureship and Harden Medal of the Biochemical Society; 1993 FEBS Datta Medal, 1992 Max Tischler Prize, Harvard, and 1996 Feldberg Foundation prize, NIH (all Fersht ); Marie Curie Medal of the Polish Chemical Society ( Klinowski ).
RSC Prizes and Awards include Pedler Medals for Ley and Sanders ; Simonsen Lectureship, Natural Product Award and Flintoff Medal ( Ley ); the 1994 Bader Award and 1995 Materials Award ( Holmes ); Ingold Lectureship ( Kirby ); Josef Loschmidt Prize ( Sanders ); Interdisciplinary Award ( Pyle ); Main Group Chemistry Award ( Snaith ); and Tertiary Education Prize ( Warren ).
Most encouraging for the future are the awards to young staff, including three Meldola Medals ( Attfield , Wales , Wright ) and an ICI Research Award ( Abell ). Other prizes and awards include the 1992 Zachariasen Prize ( Elliott ) and the 1993 Pfizer Award ( Paterson )
Also during the past four years the current staff (excluding Royal Society Research Fellows) have given a total of over 600 research lectures in Britain and over 750 lectures in 40 countries abroad. These totals include around 50 named lectureships and visiting professorships. Around half of the total 1350 lectures were given by the `Top 10'; the remaining 650 were delivered by 36 of the remaining 37 staff. Only three of the staff in post throughout the period have delivered fewer than 10 invited lectures. The Royal Society Research Fellows have delivered a total of around 70 invited lectures, and the Category C fellows a further 200 invited lectures.
There has been national and international media coverage of research results from Messrs Fersht, King, Klinowski, Lambert, Ley, Paterson, Sanders, and Williams, and of the Atmospheric Science Group and the Melville Laboratory.
Many of the staff consult widely in industry, and Dr Holmes is a
Director of Cambridge Quantum Fund and Cambridge Display Technology Ltd, but
within the Department we do not carry out short-term contract research.
Nevetheless, by the time of the 1994-5 financial year our formal annualised
expendable industrial income had risen to around 575K, and agreements
in place for the current and future years ensure that this will increase. The
academic staff raised from industrial sources additional research funding to
the value of over 100K p.a.which is not treated formally as
grant income
Glaxo-Wellcome have provided 1M to refurbish laboratories for our own
research and for a Glaxo-Wellcome research unit within the Department, and have
also provided a 250 MHz NMR spectrometer to be shared with the Department. A
visiting lectureship and further shared facilities are also under
negotiation.
Professor Ley has been awarded the Ciba-Geigy Research Fellowship, providing
2M of unconstrained research funds over a 10-year period; much of the
funding for the new FT ICR and 600 MHz instruments is industrial; combinatorial
chemistry has been set up between Dr Abell, Dr Balasubramanian and Zeneca; BP
have endowed the Laser Laboratory and Dr Klenerman's post; BNFL have awarded a
250K grant to Theoretical Chemistry for molecular modelling; and a
$20,000 gift from Dow (USA) has allowed the acquisition of a used 300 MHz NMR
spectrometer for a teaching laboratory. Several companies sponsor regular
colloquia or visiting lectureships -- these are listed below underResearch
and Training Environment.
In March 1996, the Department won a First Prize in the OST Foresight
Competition, marking the largest increase in industrial funding in competition
across all scientific departments in UK HE institutions. The consortium of Drs
Abell, Balasubramanian, Klenerman and Rayment, backed by Zeneca and BP, has
been short-listed for a further 1.5M Foresight grant to support their
remarkable collaborative project.
Messrs King , Lambert and Wander have been
awarded over 2M by EPSRC for Surface Science.
During the past four years we have published well over 1000 research papers, mostly in international, refereed journals with good reputations and high impact factors. The Department's standing in international tables based on citations is also extremely high.
Members of the Department recently appointed to Chairs elsewhere include E. C. Constable (to Basel, accompanied by Dr C. E. Housecroft), R. M. Lynden-Bell (to Belfast) and D. C. Clary (to University College, London). Several other members of staff have been offered Chairs in distinguished departments.
Our available Ph D places are oversubscribed, and our Ph D students, postdoctoral workers and research fellows are much in demand for academic posts, research and management.positions in industry; and in the professions. Recent appointments in the UK include lectureships in Oxford, Nottingham, Birmingham, Durham, Imperial College, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Belfast; Royal Society University Research Fellows and a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow.
Many research seminar/lecture series are run by the Department, amounting to over 150 talks p.a.; in addition most research groups have weekly meetings and many research workers regularly attend lectures in other departments. The most common forum for research students to present departmental talks is in one of the regular colloquium days sponsored by BP, Unilever, Rhone-Poulenc-Rorer, Glaxo-Wellcome or Johnson-Matthey.
The Todd and Linnett Visiting Professorships bring in world class scientists for extended stays; recent and prospective visitors include Overman, Whitesides, Marcus, and Schlag. The Merck-funded visiting lecturer scheme has brought Seebach, Schultz, Noyori and Wong to the Department in the past four years, and will bring K. C. Nicolaou and Christopher Walsh in 1996 and 1997. The industrially-sponsored Melville lectureship was established in 1995 and has already brought G Wegner and R H Grubbs to the Department.
We have also hosted over 50 sabbatical visitors from a total of around 20 countries since January 1992. These contribute to the research environment by talks and collaborations.
Professors Battersby , Lewis , Raphael and Thrush still contribute in many valuable ways including research publications, collaborations and general advice; in the assessment period they have also received many honours and prizes which have not been listed above. We also benefit greatly from interactions with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, directed by Dr Olga Kennard FRS, whose building is attached to the Department.
Journals edited, at least in part, from the Department include:
Chemical Physics Letters ( Buckingham and King ),Folding and Design ( Fersht ),J. Materials Res.( Holmes ),J. of Molecular Biology ( Fersht ),Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry ( Keeler ),Molecular Physics ( Handy ),Phil. Mag ( Elliott ),Solid State NMR ( Klinowski ),Surface Science ( Lambert) ,Synlett ( Ley ),Theoretica Chim. Acta ( Handy ).
Professor King is Chairman of the European Science Foundation Programme on Gas-Surface Dynamics, Professor Johnson is a Council member of the EPSRC and Foresight TOP panel, while Professor Ley is Chairman of the BBSRC Biomolecular Sciences Committee. Many other staff make contributions to editorial boards, advisory boards, and research grant committees.