David Flower is a British

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and

physical chemist Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical me ...

, an

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in the

Durham University Department of Physics The Department of Physics at Durham University in Durham, England, is a physics and astronomy department involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and scientific research. Durham has the largest group working on particle theory i ...

. He is

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of the ''

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'' (MNRAS). He became editor in chief after a long term as an MNRAS editorial board member. He is a

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, and a

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. Flower's research is on the physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium, including atomic and molecular collision physics and

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. He has authored a book entitled "''Molecular Collisions in the Interstellar Medium''" which was published in 2007 by

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of the United Kingdom. He has a long list of research published in peer review journals. An abstract and a link are provided

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