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Peter Wothers

Peter Wothers
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Peter Wothers
Born Peter David Wothers
Institutions University of Cambridge
Education Bedford Modern School
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Thesis An examination of the anomeric effect (1996)
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Website
www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/pdw12

Peter David Wothers, MBE, is a British chemist and author of several popular textbooks aimed at university students. He is a teaching fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Wothers was educated at Bedford Modern School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he received his PhD in 1996 for investigations into the anomeric effect.

Wothers has co-authored the first edition of the well-known and best-selling Organic Chemistry textbook together with Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves and his fellow Cambridge lecturer Stuart Warren. His two other popular works Why Chemical Reactions Happen and Chemical Structure and Reactivity, written with James Keeler, aim to combine the different branches of chemistry into an integrated whole.

Wothers is also very active in promoting chemistry to the wider public, and has won prizes such as the Royal Society of Chemistry President's Award in 2011 for his outstanding contribution to public outreach, handed to him by the RSC President David Phillips. He has also been responsible for organising the International Chemistry Olympiads for several years and has been chair of the 41st edition.

Peter Wothers has made numerous television appearances as a chemistry specialist, notably as one of the presenters in the Discovery Channel series "The Big Experiment". In December 2012 he presented the series of three televised Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled 'The Modern Alchemist'.


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