Peter Jaffrey Wheatley

Peter Jaffrey Wheatley

Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (Born,1921 in Cheshire: Died 12 May, 1997) was a British chemist, who published over 100 papers and 5 books on physical chemistry, crystallography and structural chemistry.

Early years

Wheatley was born in 1921. He was educated at King Edward VII School ( [http://nlc.oldedwardians.org.uk/corporis/cricket1st38-39.html photo] ) in Sheffield, where he was Head Prefect in 1938/1940, Captain of cricket for 2 years and 1st XI footballer for 4; and The Queen's College, Oxford, where he obtained a First in Chemistry, followed by a D.Phil as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton, working with Jack Linnett.

Career

*1940-45 Joined the Royal Artillery as Bombardier; captured at the fall of Singapore, prisoner-of-war interned in Malaya.
*1946 Returned to Oxford as undergraduate
*1948 Junior Research Fellow at Merton
*1950 Lectureship in Chemistry at University of Leeds
*1957 Monsanto in Zurich
*1966 Visiting Professor at Tucson
*1967 Lectureship in Physical Chemistry; elected to a Fellowship at Queens' College, Cambridge

Publications

* "Determination of Molecular Structure",Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959.
* "Chemical Consequences of Nuclear Spin", North-Holland Publishing Company, 1970.

References

* [http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/default.asp?MIS=1138 Biography at Queens' College, Cambridge]
* [http://bca.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/BCA/obits/pw.html British Crystallographic Association Obituary]


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