Peter Jaffrey Wheatley

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Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921-1997); chemist, with over 100 published papers and 5 books on physical chemistry, crystallography and structural chemistry.

[edit] Early Years

Wheatley was born in 1921. He was educated at King Edward VII School (photo) in Sheffield, where he was Head Prefect in 1938/1940, Captain of cricket for 2 years and 1st XI footballer for 4; and The Queen's College, Oxford, where he obtained a First in Chemistry, followed by a D.Phil as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton, working with Jack Linnett.

[edit] Career

  • 1940-45 Joined the Royal Artillery as Bombardier; captured at the fall of Singapore, prisoner-of-war interned in Malaya.
  • 1946 Returned to Oxford as undergraduate
  • 1948 Junior Research Fellow at Merton
  • 1950 Lectureship in Chemistry at University of Leeds
  • 1957 Monsanto in Zurich
  • 1966 Visiting Professor at Tucson
  • 1967 Lectureship in Physical Chemistry; elected to a Fellowship at Queens' College, Cambridge

[edit] External links

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