Anthony K. Cheetham#
| Membership Number: | 2689 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 Professorial Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
- 2007 Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science, University of Cambridge
- 2007 Emeritus Professor of Materials and Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2004 – 2007 Director, International Center for Materials Research, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1992 – 2004 Director, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1991 – 2007 Professor of Materials and Professor of Chemistry (Abovescale), University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1986 – 2000 Visiting Professor of Solid State Chemistry, Royal Institution, London
- 1979 Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- 1977 Visiting Professor, Fulbright Scholar, Arizona State University
- 1991 Emeritus Student (Fellow), Christ Church, University of Oxford
- 1974 – 1991 Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry, Christ Church, University of Oxford
- 1990 – 1991 Reader in Inorganic Materials, University of Oxford
- 1974 – 1990 University Lecturer in Chemical Crystallography, University of Oxford
- 1971 – 1974 E.P. Abraham Cephalosporin Junior Research Fellow, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Materials Science
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Honorary DSc, University of Warwick
- 2014 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2014 Humboldt Research Award, Germany
- 2014 Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists
- 2013 Elected Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2012 Treasurer and Vice-President, The Royal Society
- 2012 Honorary Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
- 2012 Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry (Royal Society of Chemistry, London)
- 2011 TWAS Medal Lecturer (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World)
- 2011 Honorary DSc, Tumkur University, India
- 2011 Honorary DSc, University of St. Andrews
- 2011 Raman Chair, Indian Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Platinum Medal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- 2011 Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2011 Trustee, Koerber European Science Award
- 2010 Elected member of the Council of La Maison de la Chimie, Paris
- 2009 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2008 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award (2008-2013)
- 2008 Royal Society Leverhulme Medal
- 2008 Elected Foreign Member of Mongolian Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2007-2012)
- 2006 Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de Versailles St. Quentin-en-Yvelines
- 2004 Somiya Award of the IUMRS (with Prof. C.N.R. Rao)
- 2002 Bonner Chemiepreis, Univ. Bonn
- 2001 International Chair Francqui, Brussels (2001-2)
- 2001 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Distinguished Fellow, Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
- 1999 Elected Member of the Academy of Ceramics
- 1998 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (TWAS)
- 1998 Elected Foreign Member of National Academy of Sciences of India
- 1997 Elected Foreign Member of Pakistan Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Chaire Internationale de Recherche, Blaise-Pascal, Paris (1997-9)
- 1996 Structural Chemistry Award (Royal Society of Chemistry, London)
- 1994 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London
- 1994 Visiting Professor & Distinguished Lecturer, University of Sydney
- 1988 Solid State Chemistry Award (Royal Society of Chemistry, London)
- 1982 Corday-Morgan Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry, London)
- 1981 Visiting Foreign Scientist (American Chemical Society)
- 1977 Fulbright Scholarship (Arizona State University)
