Stephen G. Davies
{{Short description|British chemist}}
{{other people||Stephen Davies (disambiguation)}}
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|name = Steve Davies
| birth_name = Stephen Graham Davies
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1950|2|24}}
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|nationality = British
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|workplaces = University of Oxford
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
|alma_mater = University of Oxford (BA, DPhil)
|doctoral_advisor = Gordon H. Whitham
|academic_advisors =
|doctoral_students = Sue Gibson{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3bc11347-fd99-4cdb-8ddd-192318934d5e|title=Transition metal promoted oxidation and reduction reactions|first= Susan E.|last=Gibson|date=1984|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.351488}}|website=ora.ox.ac.uk|oclc=499841275}}
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|thesis_title = Studies on epoxides
|thesis_year = 1975
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.453187
|known_for = Green–Davies–Mingos rules
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|awards = Perkin Prize (2011)
Tilden Prize (1997)
Bader Award (1989)
Hickinbottom Award (1984)
|website = {{URL|http://davies.chem.ox.ac.uk/home.aspx}}
|spouse = {{marriage|Kay Davies|1973|2000}}
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Stephen Graham Davies (born 24 February 1950) is a British chemist{{Cite book | title = The International Who's Who 2004 | first = Elizabeth | last = Sleeman | publisher = Routledge | year = 2003 | page = [https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond/page/398 398] | isbn = 1-85743-217-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond/page/398 }} and was, until his retirement, the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
Education
Davies obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from New College, Oxford, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Oxford|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph019878945|title=Studies on Epoxides|first= Stephen Graham|last=Davies|date=1975|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.453187}}|website=bodleian.ox.ac.uk}} under the supervision of Gordon H. Whitham.
Career and research
After his PhD, Davies subsequently held an ICI Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Malcolm Green (1975-1977) and a NATO Fellowship working with Derek Barton (1977-1978) before joining the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Gif-sur-Yvette as Attaché de Recherche working with Hugh Felkin.{{cite web | url = http://davies.chem.ox.ac.uk/group_steve.html | title = About Steve Davies | access-date = 2012-06-24 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100531191156/http://davies.chem.ox.ac.uk/group_steve.html | archive-date = 2010-05-31 }}
In 1980 he returned to Oxford to take up a University Lectureship in Chemistry. Whilst remaining an active academic, in 1991 he founded Oxford Asymmetry Ltd (an asymmetric synthesis company) as sole investor.{{cite web | url = http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/entrepreneurship/Documents/Steve_Davies.pdf | title = Interview with Steve Davies | publisher = Saïd Business School | access-date = 2012-06-24 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} He also founded Oxford Diversity Ltd (a combinatorial chemistry company).{{cite web|url = http://www.rsc.org/images/Steve%20Davies_tcm18-119380.pdf |title=Chemistry's millionaire|publisher = Royal Society of Chemistry|access-date = 2012-06-24}} These two companies were combined to form Oxford Asymmetry International Plc in 1999 which was sold to Evotec in 2000, valued at £316m.{{Cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/oxford-asymmetry-agrees-to-german-merger-worth-pound316m-711974.html | title = Oxford Asymmetry agrees to German merger worth £316m | first = Katherine | last = Griffiths | newspaper = The Independent | date = 2000-08-01 | access-date = 2009-06-17}}{{cite web | url = http://www.oion.co.uk/success/evotec.html | title = Success Stories | publisher = Oxford Investment Opportunity network | access-date = 2012-06-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130307145159/http://www.oion.co.uk/success/evotec.html | archive-date = 2013-03-07 | url-status = dead }} In 2003 he founded VASTox (Value Added
Screening Technology Oxford) a zebrafish screening company. It floated on AIM in 2004 and has since acquired Dainolabs (zebrafish) and Dextra (a carbohydrate chemistry company) as well as the assets of MNL Pharma. VASTox then changed its name to Summit.{{cite web | url = http://www.summitplc.com/board-of-directors.aspx | title = Board of Directors | access-date = 2012-06-24 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120706040226/http://www.summitplc.com/board-of-directors.aspx | archive-date = 2012-07-06 }} In 2009 the zebrafish screening operations was acquired by Evotec for £0.5 Million.{{cite web | url = http://www.evotec.com/archive/en/Press-releases/2009/Evotec-Acquires-Zebrafish-Screening-Operations-of-Summit-Corporation/1514/1 | title = Evotec Acquires Zebrafish Screening Operations of Summit Corporation | access-date = 2012-06-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101228123646/http://www.evotec.com/archive/en/Press-releases/2009/Evotec-Acquires-Zebrafish-Screening-Operations-of-Summit-Corporation/1514/1 | archive-date = 2010-12-28 | url-status = dead }} In 1996, he became Professor of Chemistry and in 2006, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry.
Davies is founder and editor-in-chief for the journal Tetrahedron: Asymmetry.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
Davies along with Malcolm Green and Michael Mingos have compiled a set of rules that summarize where nucleophilic additions will occur on pi ligands.
=Awards=
- Royal Society of Chemistry Hickinbottom Award (1984){{cite web | url = http://www.cardioscience.ox.ac.uk/bhf-centre-of-research-excellence/researcher-profiles/stephen-graham-davies | title = Steve G Davies | publisher = Oxford Cardiovascular Science | access-date = 2012-06-24}}
- Pfizer Award for Chemistry (1985 and 1988)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Organometallic Chemistry (1987){{cite web | url = http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/OrganometallicChemistryAward/PreviousWinners.asp | title = Organometallic Chemistry Award Winners | publisher = RSC | access-date = 2009-06-17 }}
- Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award (1989){{cite web | url = http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/BaderAward/PreviousWinners.asp | title = Bader Award Winners | publisher = RSC | access-date = 2009-06-17}}
- Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Lecture Award (1997/98){{cite web | url = http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/TildenPrizes/PreviousWinners.asp | title = Tilden Lectureships Winners | publisher = RSC | access-date = 2009-06-17}}
- Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Stereochemistry (1997){{cite web | url = http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=11710109 | title = Stephen Davies: Ececutive Profile & Biography | publisher = business week | access-date = 2012-06-24}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
- Prize Lectureship of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (1998)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry (2011){{cite web| url= http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/PerkinPrize/2011winner.asp|title=Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry 2011 Winner|publisher= Royal Society of Chemistry|access-date = 25 November 2014}}
Personal life
Davies is the son of Gordon W. J. Davies and June M. Murphy.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} In 1973 he married Kay E. Partridge who was to become a foremost human geneticist. They have one son.
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