Sarah (Sally) Lois Price (born 1956) is

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. Sarah (Sally) Price

Education

Price was educated at the

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, where she was awarded a

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degree in 1977 followed by a

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in 1980. Her doctoral research modelled the intermolecular forces between diatomic molecules and was supervised by Anthony Stone.

Awards and memberships

Price was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017 and was awarded the Interdisciplinary Prize by the

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in 2015. Price is a member of the

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and the

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. In 2018 Price was elected as a Member of the Academica Europea.

References

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