David Clary

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Professor David Clary is a British theoretical chemist who has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his development of the quantum theory for chemical reactions. From 2002-2005 he was Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. Before this he was Director of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at University College London. Clary was also a Reader in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge where he was Fellow and Senior Tutor of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Clary was an undergraduate at University of Sussex and has a Ph.D. and Sc.D. from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Institute of Physics. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. He received the Meldola, Marlow, Corday-Morgan, Tilden, Polanyi and Chemical Dynamics Medals of the RSC, and the medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

Clary is Editor of Chemical Physics Letters and is on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science. He has held visiting fellowships at several universities including Berkeley, Colorado, Singapore, Canterbury, Paris and Jerusalem. He has given several named lectures including the George Kistiakowsky lecture at Harvard and the Kenneth Pitzer lecture at the University of California, Berkeley.