Geoffrey Ozin

{{short description|British chemist}}

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| birth_place = London

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| workplaces = University of Toronto

| alma_mater = King's College London {{small|B.Sc. (1965)}}
Oriel College, Oxford {{small|D.Phil. (1967)}}

| thesis_title = The application of vibrational spectroscopy to some stereochemical problems

| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/1943744664/5090017EE309467EPQ

| thesis_year = 1967

| doctoral_advisor = Ian R. Beattie

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| known_for = Father of NanoChemistry

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| awards = Meldola Medal and Prize (1972)
Rutherford Memorial Medal (1982)
Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2011)

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Geoffrey Alan Stuart Ozin FRSC is a British chemist, currently Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Materials Chemistry and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto.{{Cite web|last=Government of Canada|first=Industry Canada|date=2012-11-29|title=Canada Research Chairs|url=https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=675|access-date=2021-05-31|website=www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca}} Ozin is the recipient of numerous awards for his research on nanomaterials, including the Meldola Medal and Prize in 1972 and the Rutherford Memorial Medal in 1982. He won the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 2011, the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize in 2015, and the Humboldt Prize in 2005 and 2019.{{cite web|title=September 14, 2011 – Geoffrey Ozin wins the Albert Einstein World Award of Science|url=http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/ozin-albert-einstein-award-of-science/?searchterm=None|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001145732/http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/ozin-albert-einstein-award-of-science/?searchterm=None|archive-date=1 October 2016|website=University of Toronto|accessdate=21 September 2016}} He has co-founded three university spin-off companies: Torrovap in 1985, which manufactures metal vapor synthesis scientific instrumentation; Opalux in 2006, which develops tunable photonic crystals; and Solistra in 2019, which develops photocatalysts and photoreactors for hydrogen production from carbon dioxide and methane.{{Cite web|last=Wang|first=Wendong|title=Geoffrey A. Ozin {{!}} The GAO Materials Chemistry Research Group|url=https://www.nanowizard.info/?p=95|access-date=2021-05-31|language=en-US}}