- John Albery
Wyndham John Albery FRS (born
5 April 1936 ) is a British chemist and academic.John Albery was educated at
Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He undertook his D.Phil. withRonnie Bell , starting in 1960. He was appointed to aWeir Junior Research Fellowship in October 1962 and then to aFellow ship andPraelectorship inChemistry atUniversity College, Oxford in October 1963, where he was briefly a colleague ofE. J. Bowen .Coming from the theatrical Albery family, he was an enthusiastic senior member of the
University College Players , organizer of theUniv Revue , held in the college Hall, and writer forExperimental Theatre Club revues. In fact, early in his career in 1962 he wrote for ground-breaking satirical comedy television show "That Was The Week That Was ".After Oxford, he became
Professor ofPhysical Chemistry from 1978 atImperial College London .In 1989, he returned to Oxford to be Master of University College. He is now Barrer
Fellow inChemistry at Imperial College.He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society , and was the first Master of University College to be so.Books
* "Ring-Disc Electrodes", with M. L. Hitchman,
Oxford University Press , 1971 (ISBN 0-19-855349-8).
* "Electrode Kinetics",Oxford University Press , 1975 (ISBN 0-19-855433-8).External links
* [http://www.physchem.ox.ac.uk/history/solkin.htm Kinetics in Solution] and [http://www.physchem.ox.ac.uk/history/electroc.htm Electrochemistry and Solution Kinetics]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/a/albery_john.shtml BBC Guide to Comedy entry]
*References
* "The New Master",
University College Record , October 1989, pages 14–15.
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