Anthony Cheetham

Anthony Cheetham
File:Anthony Cheetham ID2005.JPG Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2005
Born	Anthony Kevin Cheetham (1946-11-16) 16 November 1946 London
Nationality	British
Fields	Materials Science
Institutions	Lincoln College, Oxford University of California, Santa Barbara University of Cambridge
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Thesis	Structural Studies on Defect Compounds and Solid Solutions (1971)
Doctoral students	Paul Attfield Russell E. Morris
Notable awards	FRS (1994)
Website www.fihm.msm.cam.ac.uk/directory/akc30@cam.ac.uk

Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS is a British materials scientist. In 2015 he was Vice-President and Treasurer of the Royal Society.

Education

Cheetham was educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1965 to study chemistry, and graduated with a first class BA in 1969. He started his doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford in the same year, preparing a dissertation on 'The Structures of some Non-stoichiometric Compounds', which he completed in 1971.

Career and research

After receiving his doctorate he became a lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1974 he became the Lecturer in Chemical Crystallography, and in 1990 he became Reader in Organic Materials. He moved to the United States a year later to take up a position as Professor of Materials and Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, moving back to the United Kingdom in 2007 to become Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at University of Cambridge.

His area of research is that of inorganic materials, involving their synthesis, characterization and application. He is working on the development of advanced methods for the chemical and structural characterization of polycrystalline materials and the application of the techniques to the study of zeolite catalysts, molecular sieves and optical materials.

Honours and awards

• 1982 Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize of Royal Society of Chemistry
• 1988 Solid State Chemistry Award of the Royal Society
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994