Paul Anthony Madden, (born 10 October 1948) is a British
chemist and former
Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.
Early life
Madden attended
St Bede's Grammar School
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, a Catholic boys'
grammar school in
Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
, Yorkshire, England. He gained BSc and DPhil degrees in chemistry at the
University of Sussex.
His doctoral thesis was titled "Reactive Scattering Calculations" and was completed in 1974.
Career
From 1981-84 he worked at the
Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in
Malvern, Worcestershire.
From 1984 until 2005 he was
Fellow in Chemistry at
The Queen's College, Oxford and also Senior Tutor of the college and Chairman of the University Information Technology Committee. From 2004 until 2008 he was Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions at the
University of Edinburgh. He took up the office of
Provost of
The Queen's College
The Queen's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its pred ...
on 2 August 2008 and was succeeded by Dr
Claire Craig CBE on 2 August 2019.
He was awarded the Mulliken Medal of the University of Chicago for his achievements in Theoretical and Physical Chemistry. He has served as Miller Visiting Professor at the
University of California, Berkeley.
He was elected to the
Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2001 and is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
He was appointed a member of the ''ad hoc'' Board of Electors to the Professorship of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Chemistry.
''Cambridge University Reporter'' 7 February 2007
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Personal life
He is married to Alison.
References
External links
The Queen's College, Oxford
1948 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Sussex
English chemists
Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Society
People educated at St. Bede's Grammar School
Scientists from Bradford
Provosts of The Queen's College, Oxford
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