David Chilton Phillips

David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, ( born March 7, 1924 in Ellesmere ( Shropshire ), † February 23, 1999 in London) was a British chemist.

Phillips was the son of a tailor and Methodist preacher. He studied mathematics, physics and electrical engineering at the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, interrupted by his service from 1944 to 1947 as a radar officer in the Royal Navy. He then continued his studies at Cardiff University, where he earned his doctorate at Arthur JC Wilson with X-ray studies. 1951 to 1955 he was at the National Research Council in Ottawa in Canada and then from 1956 to 1966, researchers at the Royal Institution in London. He became Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford, where he remained until his retirement in 1990 1968. From 1979 he was Professor of Physiology and there Fullerian 1966-1990 Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He died in 1999 from cancer.

He is known for X-ray structural study of biologically important molecules. In particular, he explained to the 1965 structure and the antibacterial activity of the enzyme lysozyme.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, from 1972 to 1973 and from 1976 to 1983 as Vice President and from 1976 to 1983 its secretary for biology. In 1979 he became a Knight Bachelor in 1989 and KBE. In 1994 he received the dignity Peers as Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, and thus became a member of the House of Lords, where he chaired the Committee on Science and Technology. In this role, he was said to be responsible for the early connection of the British Parliament to the World Wide Web.

In 1979 he received the Prix Charles -Léopold Mayer, 1987 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 1991 Gregori Aminoff Prize -.

He was married since 1960 with Diana Hutchinson, with whom he had a daughter.