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Richard Guy Compton FRSC MAE (born 10 March 1955 in
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, UK) is a Professor of Chemistry and Aldrichian
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, United Kingdom. He is a Tutorial Fellow of
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and has a large research group based at the
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. Compton has broad interests in both fundamental and applied
electrochemistry Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between Electric potential, electrical potential difference and identifiable chemical change. These reactions involve Electron, electrons moving via an electronic ...
and electro-analysis including nano-chemical aspects. He has published more than 1600 papers ( ''h''-index = 102) with more than 44,000 citations, excluding self-cites, as of March 2020; Thompson Reuters
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2014, 2015 and 2016) and 7 books (see list below). Patents have been filed on 25 different topics including novel pH sensors, gas sensing and the detection of garlic strength and chilli heat in foodstuffs. The Senova pHit Scanner based on Compton group patents - the world’s first calibration-free pH meter - won the 'best new product' award at
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March 2013. Richard Compton has been CAS Visiting Professor at the Institute of Physical Sciences, Hefei and is a Lifelong Honorary Professor at Sichuan University. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Estonian Agricultural University and Kharkov National University of Radio-electronics (Ukraine) and is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) is one of the most prestigious awards conferred by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the United Kingdom. Existing Fellows include award winning scientists and Nobel prize winners. FRSC awa ...
, of
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and of the
International Society of Electrochemistry The International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) is a global scientific society founded in 1949. The Head Office of ISE is located now in Lausanne, Switzerland. ISE is a Member Organization of IUPAC. The Society has now more than 1900 Individua ...
. He received the
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's
Sir George Stokes Award The Sir George Stokes Award (colloquially the Stokes Medal) is named after George Gabriel Stokes and is awarded biennially by the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. It was established in 1999 to recognize the multidisciplinary ...
in 2011, and their Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science in 2018. He is a Member of the
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and Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electrochemistry Communications, published by
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.


Published Books

“''Electrode Potentials''”, Oxford University Press, 1996, reprinted 1998 and 2002, with G H W Sanders. “''Foundations of Physical Chemistry''”, Oxford University Press, 1996 reprinted 1999 and 2005 with A Rodger and C Lawrence. Japanese translation published in 1997, Spanish translation in 2001. “''Foundations of Physical Chemistry: Worked Examples''”, Oxford University Press, 1999, with N S Lawrence and J D Wadhawan. “''Understanding Voltammetry''”, World Scientific, 1st Edition, 2007, co-authored with C E Banks. 2nd Edition, published January 2011. Russian translation published 2015. “''A G Stromberg: First Class Scientist, Second Class Citizen. Letters from the GULAG and a History of Electroanalysis in the USSR''” with A S Kabakaev, M J Stawpert, G G Wildgoose and E A Zakharova, Imperial College Press, published March 2011. “''Understanding Voltammetry: Problems and Solutions''”, with C Batchelor-McAuley and E J F Dickinson, Imperial College Press, published February 2012. “''Understanding Voltammetry: Simulation of Electrode Processes''”, with E Laborda and K R Ward, Imperial College Press, published January 2014.


References


External links


The Compton Group website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Compton, Richard G. Living people 1955 births British physical chemists Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry Members of Academia Europaea