1. Sir David Charles Clary, FRS was born on 14 January 1953 and is a British theoretical chemist.
16 Facts About David Clary
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David Clary was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2005 to 2020.
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David Clary was the first chief scientific adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2009 to 2013.
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David Clary is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
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David Clary was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, and attended Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1964 to 1971.
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David Clary has a BSc from the University of Sussex and a PhD and ScD from the University of Cambridge, where he was at Corpus Christi College.
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David Clary undertook post-doctoral research at IBM in San Jose, California, and at the University of Manchester.
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David Clary was elected President of Magdalen College, Oxford in 2005.
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David Clary has held numerous visiting fellowships and given several named lectures.
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In 1997 Clary was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his development of the quantum theory for chemical reactions.
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David Clary is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics; International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
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David Clary was elected Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014 and an honorary fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2019.
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David Clary received an honorary DSc from the University of Sussex, and was elected an honorary fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge in 2005 and Magdalen College, Oxford in 2020.
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David Clary was knighted in the Queen's 2016 Birthday Honours for services to international science.
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David Clary's work has important applications in understanding interstellar, combustion and atmospheric chemistry, as the extreme temperatures of these environments can be hard to reproduce in the laboratory, but are readily treated with these theoretical methods.
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David Clary is an authority on Erwin Schrodinger, the discoverer of the form of quantum theory known as wave mechanics and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.