参加英国皇家科学院副院长Tony Cheetham报告

孙博华  2014-10-01

今天下午参加英国Royal Society皇家科学院（学会)副院长Tony Cheetham报告会，他介绍了21世纪材料科学发展和挑战。这次活动由南非科学院和皇家学会（科学院）联合组织，目的是向公众介绍材料科学的最新成就。Tony是英国剑桥大学教授。

Tony这次来南非的报告是英国皇家科学院定期的Rutherford讲座，他说Rutherford出生在新西兰，Nobel奖(1909), 曾任英国皇家科学院院长。Tony说他本来可以到新西兰做这个报告，但他选择南非，因为南非非常美丽。这是他4次来开普敦。

参加人员有学者，研究生和退休等一般公众。

我10岁的儿子提了一个很难的问题，就是关于Programming Nano Materials。Tony说最小的听者提出了一个最难的问题，他非常高兴，这个问题的研究希望寄托于这些孩子们。

这种请高级科学家给公众报告的活动每月至少一次，参加人员各种各样，对科学的大众化是非常好的推动。

希望中国科学院和中国工程院也可以定期给大众做科学报告，同时把报告做到国外。

Professor Anthony Cheetham

Professor Anthony Cheetham. Credit: © Leopoldina / M.Scholz

Tony Cheetham obtained his D.Phil. at Oxford in 1971 and did post-doctoral work in the Materials Physics Division at Harwell. He joined the chemistry faculty at Oxford in 1974, and then moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1991 to become Professor in the Materials Department. In 1992 he took up the Directorship of the new Materials Research Laboratory, which he led for the first 12 years of its existence. He became the Director of the new-created International Center for Materials Research at UCSB in 2004, and then moved to Cambridge in 2007 to become the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science.  Cheetham is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1994), TWAS (1999), the German National Academy of Sciences (2011), and several other academies.

Tony Cheetham has received numerous major awards for his work in the field of inorganic and materials chemistry; these include a Chaire Blaise Pascal, Paris, (1997-9), the Somiya Award of the IUMRS (with C.N.R. Rao, 2004), the Leverhulme Medal of the Royal Society(2008), the Platinum Medal of the IOM3 (2011), the Nyholm Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2012), and honorary doctorates from Versailles (2006), St. Andrews (2011), and Tumkur (2011).

He became the Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society at the end of November 2012.

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