John Derek Woollins
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| Fields | Chemistry |
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University of St Andrews Imperial College London Loughborough University |
| Alma mater | University of East Anglia |
| Thesis | Metal complexes containing sulphur-nitrogen ligands (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Prof Andrew J Thomson and Roger Grinter |
| Known for | Woollins' reagent |
| Notable awards | Royal Society of Chemistry Edward Frankland Fellowship and Main Group Medal |
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John Derek Woollins FRSC, FRSE is a chemist who is Vice Principal (Research) at the University of St Andrews.Woollins' reagent is named after him.
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1994 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2002. Prior to being appointed Vice Principal of Research, Woollins was the Head of Chemistry for two terms. He has been a visiting Professor at various institutes.
Woollins grew up in Cleethorpes, the second youngest of four sons. He was educated at Clee Grammar School for Boys, where he attended the sixth form. He then attended the University of East Anglia graduating with a BSc in 1976 and PhD in 1979.
He did postdoc work under William R Cullen at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, before working with Barnett Rosenberg in Michigan. His work with Rosenberg included work on Cisplatin, an early chemotherapy drug. He came up with a procedure to verify the concentration of transplatin, a harmful isomer, was less than 1ppm. He returned to the United Kingdom where he worked under Norman Greenwood at the University of Leeds before becoming a lecturer at Imperial College London. He became a Professor at Loughborough University prior to joining the University of St Andrews. Woollins has been a visiting Professor at Australian National University, University of Auckland and most recently Nanjing University of Technology. Initially Woollins was Head of Research of the School of Chemistry at St.Andrews University, before two successful terms as Head of Chemistry. After this he was appointed Vice Principal of Research, the post he currently holds.
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