The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (PTCL) is a major

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laboratory at the University of Oxford, England. It is located in the main

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of the university on

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. Previously it was known as the Physical Chemistry Laboratory.

History

The original Physical Chemistry Laboratory was built in 1941 and at that time also housed the inorganic chemistry laboratory. It replaced the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories. The east wing of the building was completed in 1959 and inorganic chemistry, already in its own building on

, then became a separate department in 1961. In 1972, the Department of Theoretical Chemistry was established in a house on South Parks Road, and in 1994, the amalgamation of the physical and theoretical chemistry departments took place. This was followed shortly by the theoretical group moving into the PTCL annexe in 1995. The university is in the early planning stages of the demolition of the PTCL building, to be replaced by a second chemistry research laboratory.

Selected chemists

The following Oxford Physical and Theoretical chemists are of note: *

John Albery Wyndham John Albery, FRS (5 April 1936 – 3 December 2013) was a British physical chemist and academic. Early life Wyndham John Albery was born on 5 April 1936. His father Michael James Albery (1910-75), a barrister, was part of a sprawling ...

* Peter Atkins * Ronnie Bell *

E. J. Bowen Edmund ("Ted") John Bowen Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (29 April 1898 – 19 November 1980) was a British physical chemist. Life Born in Worcester, England, Worcester, England, E. J. Bowen attended the Royal Grammar School Worcester. He w ...

Richard G. Compton Richard Guy Compton FRSC MAE (born 10 March 1955 in Scunthorpe, UK) is Professor of Chemistry and Aldrichian Praelector at Oxford University, United Kingdom. He is a Tutorial Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford and has a large research group ...

* Charles Coulson * Frederick Dainton * Cyril Hinshelwood * Peter J. Hore *

Graham Richards (William) Graham Richards (born 1 October 1939) is a chemist and Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He served as head of the department of chemistry at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2006. Richards is a pioneer in the fiel ...

* Rex Richards *

Timothy Softley Timothy Peter Softley One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is Pro-vice-chancellor (PVC) for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Birmingham. Education Softley was ed ...

* Robert K. Thomas * Harold Thompson

References

External links

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory website

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History

Selected chemists

See also

References

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