Andrew Bruce Holmes

Andrew Holmes AC
Born	Andrew Bruce Holmes (1943-09-05) 5 September 1943 (age 73) Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian and British
Fields	Organic Chemistry
Institutions	CSIRO, University of Melbourne, Imperial College London
Alma mater	University of Melbourne (BSc) University College London (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Franz Sondheimer
Other academic advisors	Albert Eschenmoser (postdoc)
Notable students	Andrew Ian Cooper (postdoc)
Known for	Natural product synthesis, Organic electronics
Notable awards	Royal Medal Fellow of the Royal Society Elected Fellow and Foreign Secretary, Australian Academy of Science Descartes Prize Honorary Doctorate, Hasselt University, Belgium Honorary Fellow, University College London CSIRO Fellow Member of the Order of Australia

Andrew Bruce Holmes, AC, FRS, FAA, FInstP (born 5 September 1943) is an Australian and British senior research chemist and professor at the Bio21 Institute, Melbourne, Australia, and the President of the Australian Academy of Science. His research interests lie in the synthesis of biologically-active natural products (spanning therapeutic materials to new biotechnological probes) and optoelectronic polymers (with applications to electroluminescent flexible displays and organic solar cells).

Holmes' undergraduate studies and masters' research were conducted at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Travelling to the UK on a Shell Overseas Science Scholarship, he performed his PhD work at University College London under the supervision of Franz Sondheimer.

As a postdoctoral researcher, Holmes worked on the total synthesis of Vitamin B₁₂ with Albert Eschenmoser. In 1972 he was appointed as a demonstrator to the University of Cambridge where he stayed for 32 years, ultimately as Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, and Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis where he oversaw the founding and initial decade of the Melville Laboratory.

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