John William Goodby is a British materials chemist. He is the chairman of materials chemistry at the University of York. He studies

liquid crystals Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal may flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a crystal-like way. The ...

complex fluids Complex fluids are mixtures that have a coexistence between two phases: solid–liquid ( suspensions or solutions of macromolecules such as polymers), solid–gas ( granular), liquid–gas (foams) or liquid–liquid (emulsions). They exhibit unusu ...

and self-organising systems. He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemat ...

in 2011 and received their Royal Medal in 2016 "for his major advances and discoveries of new forms of matter and materials, in particular the development of chiral liquid crystals."Royal Medallists on the Royal Society website
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Living people Academics of the University of York British materials scientists Royal Medal winners Fellows of the Royal Society Year of birth missing (living people) {{chemist-stub