John Sherwood (chemist)

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John Neil

FRSE (c. 1933 – 4 December 2020) was a British physical chemist, who researched organic crystals. He spent his career at the University of Strathclyde
, where he was professor of chemistry (1977–2002), as well as serving as vice-principal (from 1994).

Career and research

Sherwood was born in

University of Durham, where he gained BSc (1955), PhD (1960) and DSc (1976) degrees. His DSc thesis was entitled "Studies of the solid state".[2][3][4]

In 1960, he joined the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow – from 1964, part of the University of Strathclyde – where he was lecturer and then professor of chemistry (from 1977). He served as dean of the faculty of science, and the university's deputy principal and vice-principal (from 1994). He retired in 2002,[2] remaining an emeritus professor in pure and applied chemistry until his death.[5]

His research was into

fibre-optics for use in communications.[2]

Sherwood chaired the British Association for Crystal Growth.[2] He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1975,[1] and was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[2]

Personal life

In 1958, he married Margaret Shaw (died 2020); they had two daughters.[2] He died on 4 December 2020, at the age of 87.[2][6]

Selected publications

Books

Source:[7]

  • David Pugh, Kevin J. Roberts, John N. Sherwood (eds). Crystal Growth of Organic Materials (Institute of Physics, 1993) (
    OCLC 30445820
    )
  • John N. Sherwood (ed.). Structure of Surfaces and Interfaces as Studied Using Synchrotron Radiation (Royal Society of Chemistry; 1990) (
    ISBN 9780851869971
    )
  • John N. Sherwood (ed.). The Plastically Crystalline State: Orientationally-disordered Crystals (J. Wiley & Sons; 1979) (
    ISBN 9780471997153
    )
  • John Neil Sherwood (ed.). Diffusion processes: Proceedings of the Thomas Graham Memorial Symposium, University of Strathclyde (Gordon and Breach; 1971) (
    OCLC 286890
    )
  • OCLC 32373
    )

Research articles

References

  1. ^ a b Professor John Neil Sherwood FRSE, Royal Society of Edinburgh, retrieved 11 January 2021
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Kevin Roberts (7 January 2021), "John Sherwood obituary", The Guardian, retrieved 11 January 2021
  3. OCLC 1015512528
  4. ^ John Sherwood, ORCID, retrieved 11 January 2021
  5. ^ Professor John Sherwood, University of Strathclyde, retrieved 11 January 2021
  6. ^ Search at [1] on 11 January 2021
  7. ^ Sherwood, John Neil, WorldCat, retrieved 11 January 2021

External links

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