Mary Archer
| The Right Honourable The Lady Archer DBE |
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| Born |
Mary Doreen Weeden 22 December 1944 Epsom, Surrey, England, UK |
| Education | Cheltenham Ladies' College; St Anne's College, Oxford; Imperial College London |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Spouse(s) | Jeffrey Archer (m. 1966) |
| Children | William Harold Archer (b. 1972) James Howard Archer (b. 1974) |
Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer, DBE (née Weeden; born 22 December 1944), commonly known as Dame Mary Archer, is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion.
Mary Weeden was born in Epsom, Surrey in December 1944. She was the younger daughter of Harold N. Weeden, a chartered accountant, by his marriage in 1937 to Doreen Cox. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, before going on to study chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford and physical chemistry at Imperial College London.
After a brief period teaching at Oxford University, Mary Archer worked as a scientific researcher under the Nobel prize-winning scientist Sir George Porter at the Royal Institution in London. It was during this period that she became interested in photoelectrochemistry, and she has both written and lectured extensively on the subject. In the mid-1970s, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of the International Solar Energy Society.
Between 1976 and 1986, she was a lecturer in Chemistry at Newnham and Trinity Colleges in Cambridge.
From 1984 to 1991, she was a director of the Fitzwilliam Museum Trust in Cambridge. She was a non-executive director of Mid Anglia Radio plc between 1988 and 1995.
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