Overview
The School is the second largest department of Chemistry in the UK, and one of the handful which are truly internationally competitive. The School continues Manchester's long and distinguished history of chemical innovation, from the birth of modern chemistry with John Dalton, through to recent Nobel Prize winners, Manchester students John Polanyi and Michael Smith.
The School has comprehensive academic coverage across the chemical sciences, and excellence in all the core sub-disciplines of chemistry. We have outstanding facilities, including 11 high resolution and two solid state NMR spectrometers, three area detectors and several powder systems for X-ray crystallography, and the UK's national EPR service.
Our research has been recognised by both funding bodies, who are currently providing more than £50 million of research grants, and by numerous national and international prizes and awards.
Three members of School have been awarded 2009 Royal Society awards:
Professor Paul O’Brien – Peter Day Award
Professor Jim Thomas – Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award
Professor Nick Turner – Organic Industrial Chemistry Award
(For a full list of RSC awards see:
http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/Winners/2009.asp)
Professor Simon Gaskell also shares the 2009 Distinguished Achievement in Mass Spectrometry award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry with Dr Vicki Wysocki of the University of Arizona.
The School was ranked 4th for 'research power' the in UK in last 2008 RAE exercise.