:Andrew Orr-Ewing
{{Short description|British chemist (born 1965)}}
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| name = Andrew Orr-Ewing
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| birth_name = Andrew John Orr-Ewing
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1965}}
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| fields = Physical chemistry
Chemical physics
| workplaces = University of Bristol
Stanford University
| education = Dr Challoner's Grammar School
| alma_mater = University of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
| thesis_title = Laser studies of reaction dynamics
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302888
| thesis_year = 1991
| doctoral_advisor = Gus Hancock
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- Edward Harrison Memorial Prize (1994)
- Marlow Medal (1999)
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2006)
- Tilden Prize (2009)}}
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Andrew John Orr-Ewing (born 1965){{Who's Who | title=Orr-Ewing, Prof. Andrew John | author=Anon|year=2017 |id = U289299 | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.289299 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}} is a British chemist and Professor of physical chemistry at the University of Bristol. His work investigates the mechanisms of chemical reaction in both the gas and liquid phases and has used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to observe the effects of solvents on molecular reaction and the dynamics of photodissociation.{{Google scholar id}}{{Scopus id}}{{EuropePMC|0000-0001-5551-9609}}
Education
Orr-Ewing was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree by the University of Oxford in 1988. In 1991 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physical chemistry for research supervised by {{ill|Gus Hancock|qid=Q56569326}},{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|title=Laser studies of reaction dynamics|first= Andrew John|last=Orr-Ewing|date=1991|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.302888}}|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph015984335|website=ox.ac.uk|oclc=53493953}} also at the University of Oxford.
Career and research
Following his DPhil, Orr-Ewing completed two years of post-doctoral research supervised by Richard Zare at Stanford University in California,{{cite journal|last1=Orr-Ewing|first1=A J|last2=Zare|first2=R N|title=Orientation and Alignment of Reaction Products|journal=Annual Review of Physical Chemistry|volume=45|issue=1|year=1994|pages=315–366|issn=0066-426X|doi=10.1146/annurev.pc.45.100194.001531|bibcode=1994ARPC...45..315O}} and was then a Royal Society Elizabeth Challenor research fellow at the University of Bristol, where he was later appointed Professor of physical chemistry in August 2004. His research interests are in physical chemistry and chemical physics.
=Awards and honours=
Orr-Ewing has received awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry including the Edward Harrison Memorial Prize in 1994, the Marlow Medal in 1999, the Tilden Prize in 2009, and awards in optical spectroscopy in 2002 and chemical dynamics in 2014. He was a Leverhulme Trust senior research fellow in 2005, and received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/andrew-orr-ewing-10208/|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|author=Anon|year=2017|title=Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing FRS}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text under a [https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]. and a Member of the Academiae Europaea (MAE) in 2018.
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
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