Geoffrey Alan Stuart Ozin FRSC is a British chemist, currently Tier 1

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in Materials Chemistry and Distinguished University Professor at the

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. Ozin is the recipient of numerous awards for his research on nanomaterials, including the Meldola Medal and Prize in 1972 and the Rutherford Memorial Medal in 1982. He won the

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in 2011, the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize in 2015, and the Humboldt Prize in 2005 and 2019. He has co-founded three university spin-off companies: Torrovap in 1985, which manufactures metal vapor synthesis scientific instrumentation; Opalux in 2006, which develops tunable photonic crystals; and Solistra in 2019, which develops photocatalysts and photoreactors for

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from carbon dioxide and methane.

Early life and education

Initially planning on entering the family fashion and tailor business, he entered

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in 1962, the first member of his family to attend university. Ozin graduated with a first-class honours degree in chemistry from

in 1965, and obtained his PhD in inorganic chemistry at

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in 1967 with Prof. Ian R. Beattie. He then was an

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postdoctoral fellow at the

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from 1967-1969. In 1969, he began his independent career at the

as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1972, and full professor in 1977.

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1943 births Living people Alumni of King's College London Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Academic staff of the University of Toronto Canada Research Chairs Albert Einstein World Award of Science Laureates Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry British inorganic chemists Solid state chemists {{chemist-stub