Internet, authorities.loc.gov, 2008-03-13
Internet, http://www-jenkins.ch.cam.ac.uk/people/dak10.html 2010-11-25
Information trouvée : Until the end of 2007, Sir David King was Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government
and Head of the Government Office for Science (GO-Science) within the Department for
Innovation, Universities and Skills. From January 2008 he has been the Director of
the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, at the University of Oxford.
Director of Research in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, and remains
active in research into the physics and chemistry of solid surfaces. Sir David King
was appointed as the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Office
of Science and Technology in October 2000 . Born in South Africa in 1939, and after
an early career at the University of Witwatersrand, Imperial College and the University
of East Anglia, he became the Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University
of Liverpool in 1974. In 1988, he was appointed 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry
at the University of Cambridge and subsequently became Master of Downing College (1995-2000),
and Head of the University Chemistry Department (1993-2000).
The chemical physics of solid surfaces and heterogeneous catalysis. Volume 5, Surface
properties of electronic materials, 1988
Information trouvée : Professeur de chimie physique à l'Université de Liverpool en 1988