David Leigh (scientist)

David Alan Leigh ( born May 31, 1963) is a British chemist and pioneer in nanoscience.

Life

Leigh earned a bachelor's degree in 1984 and 1987 at Fraser Stoddart at the University of Sheffield a Ph.D. in chemistry. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. He became a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester in 1989. In 1998, he received the Department of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Warwick, before being appointed in 2001 as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Since 2012 he has been Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester.

Leigh has a daughter.

Work

Leigh's working group is concerned with the design and synthesis of structures at the molecular level, including catenanes, rotaxanes and molecular knots, and with very strong hydrogen bonds, leave with which affect the function and properties of synthetic molecular machines - including Brownian motors, nano motors are driven by Brownian motion.

Awards (selection)

  • 2004 Elected member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • 2005 Elected member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2007 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
  • The European Commission in 2007 Descartes Prize
  • 2009 Member of the Royal Society
  • Bakerian 2013 Lecture of the Royal Society
National Research Council (Canada) Nanomotor Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology Bakerian Lecture
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