page_title: David Phillips (chemist)
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caption_attribution_description: English: David Phillips received his PhD in 1964. After conducting research abroad, he lectured at the University of Southampton then moved to the Royal Institution, later becoming its Deputy Director. David joined Imperial College in 1989 as Professor of Physical Chemistry, serving as Head of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of the Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences before retiring in 2006. His research interests include the fundamentals and applications of photochemistry and photophysics, fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and photodynamic therapy. He has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Nyholm Prize for Education, and the Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for his contributions to the public understanding of science. David has received an OBE for services to science education, and a CBE for services to chemistry. He is former President of the RSC (2010–2012) and has chaired the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum since 2013. He is an Honorary Fellow of the City and Guilds Institute, the Royal Institution and the British Science Society, and holds honorary degrees from several universities. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: The Royal Society You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers&#160;as ticket #2014062710019796. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&amp;TicketNumber=2014062710019796
context_page_description: David Phillips, CBE, FRSC, FRS is a British Chemist specialising in photochemistry and lasers, and was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012.
context_section_description: David Phillips, CBE, FRSC, FRS (born 1939) is a British Chemist specialising in photochemistry and lasers, and was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012.
caption: David Phillips in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
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