Arthur Carty

{{Short description|Canadian academic}}

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|name = Arthur J. Carty

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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|9|12|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, England, UK

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|occupation = Academic; government advisor

|nationality = Canadian

|awards = Order of Canada}}

Arthur J. Carty, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|FRSC}} (born 12 September 1940), is a Canadian academic and former National Science Advisor to the Government of Canada.

Carty was the inaugural director{{Cite web|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-nanotechnology/about-waterloo-institute-nanotechnology/history|title=History - Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology|access-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232153/https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-nanotechnology/about-waterloo-institute-nanotechnology/history|archive-date=January 13, 2019|url-status=dead}} of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo, special advisor to the President on international science and technology collaboration and research professor in the department of chemistry. From 2004-08, he served as Canada's first national science advisor to the prime minister and to the Government of Canada. Prior to his appointment as national science advisor, he was president of the National Research Council, Canada's leading knowledge and innovation organization, for ten years (1994-2004).

He earned a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Nottingham. Before joining NRC in 1994, he spent two years at Memorial University and 27 years at the University of Waterloo where he was successively professor of chemistry, director of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry, a pioneering joint graduate program, chair of the chemistry department and dean of research.{{Cite web|url=https://sciencepolicy.ca/arthur-carty|title=Arthur Carty|date=2015-12-03|website=Canadian Science Policy Centre|language=en|access-date=2020-01-27}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.uottawa.ca/president/bio/carty-arthur|title=CARTY, Arthur|website=Office of the President|language=en|access-date=2020-01-27}}

Carty maintains an active interest in research in organometallic chemistry and new materials. He has over 300 publications in peer reviewed journals and five patents to his credit. He is a former president of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, an honorary fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and of the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.{{Cite web|url=https://cca-reports.ca/experts/arthur-carty/|title=Arthur Carty|last=|first=|date=|website=Council of Canadian Academies|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619004720/https://cca-reports.ca/experts/arthur-carty/ |archive-date=2019-06-19 |access-date=2020-01-27}}