George Jackson (chemist)
{{Short description|British physical chemist}}
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George Jackson (born 31 July 1962){{cite encyclopedia |title=Jackson, Prof. George |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-294655 |encyclopedia=Who's Who |publisher=A & C Black | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U294655 | isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 |access-date=23 April 2022|url-access=subscription }} is a British professor of chemical physics in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is noted for developing molecular models that describe the thermodynamic properties of complex fluids; as one of the developers of statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT); and for his work in molecular systems engineering. His theoretical work has found a wide range of practical applications in industries such as gas extraction and emerging fields like carbon capture and storage.{{cite web |title=George Jackson |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/George-Jackson-25365/ |website=Royal Society: Fellows Directory |publisher=The Royal Society |access-date=23 April 2022}}
Early life and career
Jackson was born in Spain and grew up in Switzerland. He took a B.Sc. in chemistry at Chelsea College (1980-1983), followed by a D.Phil. in Physical Chemistry at Exeter College, University of Oxford (1983-1986). After postdoctoral work at Cornell University with Keith E. Gubbins (1986-1989), he became a lecturer and reader in physical chemistry at the University of Sheffield (1989-1998), and has been professor of Chemical Physics at Imperial College London since 2001.{{cite web |title=George JACKSON BSc DPhil FRSC FRS |url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.jackson |publisher=Imperial College London |access-date=23 April 2022}}
Research interests
Jackson's research centres on developing simplified but realistic mathematical models of complex fluids, which are used in industries such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, gas extraction, and carbon capture. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was one of the developers of the influential statistical associating fluid theory (SAFT), an equation of state that predicts the thermodynamic properties of complex fluid mixtures.{{cite web |title=Bakhuis Roozeboom Fund: George Jackson |url=https://knaw.nl/en/awards/laureates/bakhuis-roozeboom-fund/george-jackson |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513224236/https://www.knaw.nl/en/awards/laureates/bakhuis-roozeboom-fund/george-jackson |archive-date=13 May 2021 |url-status=dead}}
Awards
Jackson has won numerous honours and awards including a Research Excellence Award in 2009, a Guggenheim Medal awarded by the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 2014,{{cite web |title=George Jackson receives first Guggenheim Medal |url=https://www.icheme.org/about-us/press-releases/george-jackson-receives-first-guggenheim-medal/ |publisher=Institution of Chemical Engineers |access-date=17 May 2022 |date=28 September 2015}} and the Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1995 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020.
Selected publications
- {{cite journal|last1=Chapman|first1=Walter G.|last2=Jackson|first2=G.| last3=Gubbins| first3=K.E.| date=11 July 1988|title=Phase equilibria of associating fluids: Chain molecules with multiple bonding sites| journal=Molecular Physics|language=en|volume=65|pages=1057–1079|doi=10.1080/00268978800101601}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Chapman|first1=Walter G.|last2=Gubbins|first2=K.E.|last3=Jackson|first3=G.| last4=Radosz|first4=M.| title=SAFT: Equation-of-state solution model for associating fluids|journal=Fluid Phase Equilibria|date=1 December 1989|volume=52|pages=31–38|doi=10.1016/0378-3812(89)80308-5|s2cid=53310898 | language=en|issn=0378-3812}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Chapman|first1=Walter G.|last2=Gubbins|first2=K.E.|last3=Jackson|first3=G.|last4=Radosz|first4=M.|title=New Reference Equation of State for Associating Liquids|journal=Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.|date=1 August 1990|volume=29|issue=8| pages=1709–1721| doi=10.1021/ie00104a021|language=en }}
- {{Cite journal | doi=10.1063/1.473101|title = Statistical associating fluid theory for chain molecules with attractive potentials of variable range| journal=The Journal of Chemical Physics| volume=106| issue=10| pages=4168–4186|year = 1997|last1 = Gil-Villegas|first1 = Alejandro| last2=Galindo| first2=Amparo| last3=Whitehead| first3=Paul J.| last4=Mills| first4=Stuart J.| last5=Jackson| first5=George| last6=Burgess| first6=Andrew N.|bibcode = 1997JChPh.106.4168G}}
- {{cite journal|display-authors=5|first1=Niall|last1=MacDowell|first2=Nick|last2=Florin|first3=Antoine|last3=Buchard|first4=Jason|last4=Hallett|first5=Amparo|last5=Galindo|first6=George|last6=Jackson|first7=Claire|last7=Adjiman|first8=Charlotte|last8=Williams|first9=Nilay|last9=Shah|first10=Paul|last10=Fennell|title=An overview of CO2 capture technologies |journal=Energy & Environmental Science |date=2010 |volume=3|issue=11 |pages=1645–1669|url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2010/ee/c004106h|doi=10.1039/C004106H|access-date=22 Apr 2022}}
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External links
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