David King#
| Membership Number: | 2576 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2008 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - 2013 Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
- 2009 - 2012 Fellow of University College, Oxford
- 2008 - 2013 Senior science advisor, UBS
- 2008 - 2012 Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford
- 2008 - 2011 President of Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy
- October 2000 to 31 December 2007 Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the Government Office for Science
- 1988 Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Master of Downing College (1995-2000), and Head of the University Chemistry Department (1993 - 2000)
- 1974 Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Liverpool
- Employment at University of Witwatersrand, Imperial College and the University of East Anglia
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics and chemistry of solid surfaces
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2002 Rumford Medal of the Royal Society for his research
- 2002 Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Knighted in the New Year Honours
- 2006 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2006 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce
- 2002 Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur
- 2022 David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Honorary degrees by the University of Genoa (Italy), the KTU (Stockholm), the University of the Witwatersrand (S. Africa) and seven British universities
