Fraser Armstrong

Fraser Andrew Armstrong ( born 1951 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British chemist at the University of Oxford.

Life and work

Armstrong earned a bachelor's degree in 1975 and 1978 at Geoff Sykes a Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. With a grant from the Royal Society, he then worked with Peter Kroneck at the University of Konstanz, before he went as a postdoctoral fellow at Ralph Wilkins at the New Mexico State University and Helmut Beinert to the Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Another station as a postdoctoral researcher led him in 1981 to Allen Hill at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, where he again worked for the Royal Society as an independent research fellow from 1983.

According to a professor at the University of California, Irvine (1989-1993) Armstrong is today ( 2013) Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He belongs to the St John 's College.

Armstrong did pioneering work in the field of electrochemistry of thin layers of proteins by a particularly accurate thermodynamic and kinetic control of redox enzymes is possible - the example of hydrogenases as a key enzyme of modern energy technology. He is the inventor of a technology in which using metalloenzymes solar radiation is used to convert water into hydrogen or bind carbon dioxide.

Awards (selection)

Writings (selection )

• Bioinorganic chemistry, Springer, 1990, ISBN 3-540-51574-7
• Energy ... beyond oil, Katherine M. Blundell, Oxford University Press 2007, ISBN 0-19-920996-0