Richard Catlow
{{Short description|British chemist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2015}}
{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| name = Richard Catlow
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FRSC|FInstP|size=100%}}
| birth_name = Charles Richard Arthur Catlow
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1947|04|24}}
| birth_place = Simonstone, Lancashire,{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=gQOcLWNB4WHnNe1Sh%2FE0QQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=1 August 2020|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} England
| nationality = British
| fields = Chemistry
Physics
Materials Science
Crystallography
Computational science
| workplaces = University College London
Royal Institution
| alma_mater = University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
| thesis_title = Defect structures in fluorite crystals
| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.450933
| thesis_year = 1973
| doctoral_advisor = Alan Lidiard
| doctoral_students = Robin Grimes,{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Keele|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/9602217?style=html|title=Quantum mechanical and classical modelling of defects in metal oxides|first= Robin William|last=Grimes|date=1988|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.375921}}|website=jisc.ac.uk|oclc=556710010}} Saiful Islam
| website = {{URL|https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/5952-richard-catlow}}
}}
Sir Charles Richard Arthur Catlow {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS|FRSC|FInstP}} FLSW (born 24 April 1947) is a British chemist and professor at University College London and Cardiff University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic_pages/richard_catlow |title=Prof Richard Catlow |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120180727/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic_pages/richard_catlow |archive-date=20 November 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}{{Google scholar id}}{{Scopus id}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001620 |title=The Royal Institution of Great Britain | Prof Richard Catlow |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211223247/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001620 |archive-date=11 February 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/157882-catlow-richard |title=Professor Richard Catlow FRS |access-date=1 August 2020 |df=dmy-all}} Previously, he was Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory (1998–2007),{{Cite news |url=https://www.rigb.org/our-history/people/c/charles-catlow |title=Charles Richard Arthur Catlow (1947–) |access-date=1 August 2020 |df=dmy-all }} and Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution.{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Catlow, Prof. (Charles) Richard (Arthur) | id = U10453 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10453 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001620 |title=The Royal Institution of Great Britain | Prof Richard Catlow |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211223247/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001620 |archive-date=11 February 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} Since 2016, he has served as the foreign secretary of the Royal Society.,{{cite web|title=Council|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/committees/council/|website=The Royal Society|access-date=1 October 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thomasyoungcentre.org/people/45/|title=Thomas Young Centre|website=Thomasyoungcentre.org|access-date=16 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/cposs/people/Richard.html|title=Richard Catlow|website=Chem.ucl.ac.uk|access-date=16 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/richard-catlow-11198/|title=Professor Richard Catlow FRS|author=Anon|year=2004|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|website=royalsociety}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=2016-11-11}}}} and since 2021 as President of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP).{{Cite web|last=Partnership (IAP)|first=the InterAcademy|title=Richard Catlow joins Depei Liu as IAP Co-President|url=https://www.interacademies.org/news/richard-catlow-joins-depei-liu-iap-co-president|access-date=2021-05-12|website=www.interacademies.org|date=29 April 2021 |language=en-GB}}
Education
He earned a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974, from St John's College, University of Oxford.{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/44160128?style=html|title=Defect structures in fluorite crystals|first= Charles Richard Arthur|last=Catlow|date=1973|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.450933}}|website=Jisc.ac.uk|oclc=500400761}}{{Cite web |url=https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal/?upi=CRACA43 |title=IRIS – Richard Catlow |access-date=2 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531052953/https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal/?upi=CRACA43 |archive-date=31 May 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
Career and research
Catlow has developed and applied computer models to solid state and materials chemistry. By combining his computational methods with experiments, Catlow has made contributions to areas as diverse as catalysis and mineralogy.
His approach has advanced understanding of how defects (missing or extra atoms) in the structure of solids can result in non-stoichiometric compounds. Such compounds have special electrical or chemical properties since their contributing elements are present in slightly different proportions to those predicted by chemical formulae.
Catlow's work has offered insight into mechanisms of industrial catalysts, especially involving microporous materials and metal oxides. In structural chemistry and mineralogy, simulation methods are now routinely used to predict the structures of complex solids and silicates respectively, following Catlow's demonstrations of their power.
=Awards and honours=
In December 2014, Catlow was the winner of the Gerhard Ertl Lecture at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin.{{cite web|url=http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/gela.epl|title=FHI|website=Fhi-berlin.mpg.de|access-date=16 December 2018}} He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).{{when|date=December 2018}} In 2017, Catlow was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Richard Catlow |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/richard-catlow/ |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}} In 2020, he was awarded the Faraday Lectureship Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry.{{Cite web|title=Faraday Division open award: Faraday Lectureship Prize|url=https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/find-a-prize/faraday-division-open-award-faraday-lectureship-prize/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Royal Society of Chemistry|language=en-GB}} Catlow was knighted in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to leadership in science and research.{{London Gazette|issue=63135|supp=y|page=B2|date=10 October 2020}}{{London Gazette
| issue = 63135
| date = 2020-10-09
| page = B2
| supp = 1
}}
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