David Garner
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Professor Dave Garner FRSC, FRS |
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Christopher David Garner 9 November 1941 |
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| Nationality | British | ||
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| Fields | Biological Inorganic Chemistry | ||
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| Alma mater | University of Nottingham | ||
| Thesis | Crystal structures of Group IV metal nitrates (1966) | ||
| Doctoral advisor | Clive Addison | ||
| Doctoral students | Jim Naismith | ||
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Christopher David Garner FRSC FRS (born 9 November 1941) is a retired British chemist, whose research work was in the growing field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. His research primarily focussed on the role of transition metal elements in biological processes, for which he published over 400 original papers and reviews on the topic. His specific interests lie in the roles of Molybdenum and Tungsten as the metal centres in various enzyme cofactors based on the molybdopterin molecule.
As well as his research work, Garner has also been a very prominent member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, for which he has been a member of the council for many years and served as President from 2008 to 2010.
Garner was educated at Cheadle Hulme Warehousemen & Clerk’s Orphans’ School and studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Nottingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in 1963. Under the supervision of Clive Addison subsequently earned his PhD for his work on the "Crystal structures of Group IV metal nitrates" in 1966.
Following his graduation, Garner took up a post-doctoral research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology for one year, before returning to the UK to take up a post as the ICI Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. He was then subsequently appointed as a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Manchester in 1968, and rose through the ranks to senior lecturer (1978), and finally appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1984. Garner was appointed as the Head of the School of Chemistry from 1988 to 1996, and served as a member of the University Court from 1995 to 1999, and as a member of the University Council from 1996 to 1999.
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