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Peter Atkins is a British chemist and professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Chemistry. He is the author of several popular science books, including Atkins' Physical Chemistry, Atkins' Molecular Quantum Mechanics, and Atkins' Chemical Principles. Atkins was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, on 2 November 1955. He was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham and then at the University of Leicester, where he obtained a BSc in Chemistry in 1976. He then went on to the University of Oxford, where he obtained a DPhil in 1979. Atkins has held a number of academic positions, including a lectureship at the University of Sussex, a research fellowship at the University of Cambridge, and a professorship at the University of Oxford. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Diego. Atkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Atkins has written several popular science books, including Atkins' Physical Chemistry, Atkins' Molecular Quantum Mechanics, and Atkins' Chemical Principles. He has also written several textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is married to the chemist and author Mary P. Atkins. They have two children.

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 2 November 1955
Birthday 2 November
Birthplace Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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His wife is Judith Kearton (m. 1964-1983) Susan Greenfield (m. 1991-2005) Patricia-Jean Nobes (m. 2008)

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2016

In 2016 Atkins received the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public from the American Chemical Society.

2008

Atkins is known for his use of astringent language in criticising religion: he appeared in the 2008 documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, in which he told interviewer Ben Stein that religion was "a fantasy", and "completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil". He appeared on a television panel about science and religion with Richard Dawkins and Richard Swinburne. When the latter tried to explain the Holocaust as God's way of giving Jews the opportunity to be brave and noble, Atkins growled: "May you rot in hell".

2007

In 2007, Atkins's position on religion was described by Colin Tudge in an article in The Guardian as being non-scientific. In the same article, Atkins was also described as being 'more hardline than Richard Dawkins', and of deliberately choosing to ignore Peter Medawar's famous adage that "Science is the art of the soluble".

2006

In December 2006, Atkins was featured in a UK television documentary on atheism called The Trouble with Atheism, presented by Rod Liddle. In that documentary Liddle asked Atkins: "Give me your views on the existence, or otherwise, of god". Atkins replied: "Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one".

1970

He was a founder member of The Dog Company, a 1970s avant-garde theatre group, along with Clive Barker and Doug Bradley - with whom he would later work on the Hellraiser movies.

1964

Atkins studied chemistry there, obtaining a BSc degree in chemistry, and a PhD degree in 1964 for research into electron spin resonance spectroscopy, and other aspects of theoretical chemistry. Atkins then took a postdoctoral position at UCLA as a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth fund. He returned to Britain in 1965 as a fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford, and lecturer in physical chemistry (later, professor of physical chemistry). In 1969, he won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Meldola Medal. In 1996 he was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Chemistry. He retired in 2007, and since then has been a full-time author.

1955

Peter Atkins was born in Liverpool, England on 2 November 1955.

1940

Peter William Atkins FRSC (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.