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'''Sir John Meurig Thomas''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FLSW|FRS|HonFREng|HonFRSE|FRMS}} (born 15 December 1932) is a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[chemist]] and educator primarily known for his work on [[heterogeneous catalysis]], [[solid-state chemistry]], and surface and [[materials science]].<ref name="Somorjai">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1023/b:toca.0000003335.51469.58| title = A Tribute to John Meurig Thomas: Llongyfarchiadau ar eich penblwydd| journal = Topics in Catalysis| volume = 24| pages = 3| year = 2003| last1 = Somorjai | first1 = G. A. | last2 = Roberts | first2 = M. W. }}</ref><ref name="radioWales">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20111122.shtml |title=Sir John Meurig Thomas |date=22 November 2011 |publisher=BBC Radio Wales |accessdate=16 November 2017}}</ref>
'''Sir John Meurig Thomas''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FLSW|FRS|HonFREng|HonFRSE|FRMS}} (born 15 December 1932) is a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[chemist]] and educator primarily known for his work on [[heterogeneous catalysis]], [[solid-state chemistry]], and surface and [[materials science]].<ref name="Somorjai">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1023/b:toca.0000003335.51469.58| title = A Tribute to John Meurig Thomas: Llongyfarchiadau ar eich penblwydd| journal = Topics in Catalysis| volume = 24| pages = 3| year = 2003| last1 = Somorjai | first1 = G. A. | last2 = Roberts | first2 = M. W. }}</ref><ref name="radioWales">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20111122.shtml |title=Sir John Meurig Thomas |date=22 November 2011 |publisher=BBC Radio Wales |accessdate=16 November 2017}}</ref>
Much of his research has involved creating new solid catalysts and trying to understand the structure and activity of existing ones using techniques such as [[X-ray absorption spectroscopy|X-ray absorption]], [[NMR spectroscopy]], and high resolution [[transmission electron microscopy]]. In recent years, he has focused on designing [[green chemistry]] catalysts for [[clean technology]] and on developing ways of studying catalysts in situ.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|6-7, 623-638}}
Much of his research has involved creating new solid catalysts and trying to understand the structure and activity of existing ones using techniques such as [[X-ray absorption spectroscopy|X-ray absorption]], [[NMR spectroscopy]], and high resolution [[transmission electron microscopy]].<ref name="Califano">{{cite book |last1=Califano |first1=Salvatore |title=Pathways to modern chemical physics |date=2012 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783642281792 |page=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s-sCt4RT0bMC&pg=PA52 |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref> In recent years, he has focused on designing [[green chemistry]] catalysts for [[clean technology]] and on developing ways of studying catalysts in situ.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|6-7, 623-638}}


In 1991 Thomas was knighted "for services to chemistry and the popularisation of science".<ref name="Symposium">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/symposium-honours-professor-sir-john-meurig-thomas|title=Symposium honours Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas|date=2007-12-13|work=University of Cambridge|access-date=2018-04-27|language=en}}</ref>
In 1991 Thomas was knighted "for services to chemistry and the popularisation of science".<ref name="Symposium">{{Cite news|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/symposium-honours-professor-sir-john-meurig-thomas|title=Symposium honours Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas|date=2007-12-13|work=University of Cambridge|access-date=2018-04-27|language=en}}</ref>

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Sir John Meurig Thomas
Sir John Meurig Thomas, 2019
Born (1932-12-15) 15 December 1932 (age 91)[2]
Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
Websitewww.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/jmt2

Sir John Meurig Thomas FLSW FRS HonFREng HonFRSE FRMS (born 15 December 1932) is a Welsh chemist and educator primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science.[3][4] Much of his research has involved creating new solid catalysts and trying to understand the structure and activity of existing ones using techniques such as X-ray absorption, NMR spectroscopy, and high resolution transmission electron microscopy.[5] In recent years, he has focused on designing green chemistry catalysts for clean technology and on developing ways of studying catalysts in situ.[6]: 6–7, 623–638 

In 1991 Thomas was knighted "for services to chemistry and the popularisation of science".[7] Thomas has authored more than 1200 scientific articles and several books,[8][9] including Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis (with W. John Thomas)[10][11] and Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place.[12] The mineral meurigite is named after him.[13]

Biography

Early life and education

Thomas was born and brought in the Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales,[4] near the mining town of Llanelli,[2] where his father and brother were miners.[14]

Thomas earned a BSc degree from the University College of Wales, Swansea (later Swansea University) in 1954,[6]: 1, 480 . He earned a PhD from Queen Mary College (later Queen Mary University of London) in 1958, working with Keble W. Sykes.[15][6]: 1, 796 

Personal life

In 1959, John Meurig Thomas married Margaret Edwards with whom he had two daughters, Lisa and Naomi. Margaret Thomas died in 2002.[6]: 6–8, 864 [16]

In April 2010, Thomas married Jehane Ragai of the American University in Cairo; the events took place in Cambridge and London.[6]: 13 

The recreations he lists in Who's Who include ancient civilisations, bird watching, and Welsh literature.[2]

Early career

After a year's work for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority as scientific officer (1957-1958), Thomas joined the Department of Chemistry at the University College of North Wales (later Bangor University) as of September 1958.[6]: 1  There he rose through the ranks from Assistant Lecturer (1958), to Lecturer (1959), to Senior Lecturer (1964) and then to Reader in 1965.[17][18] Thomas demonstrated the profound influence of dislocations and other structural imperfections upon the chemical, electronic, and surface properties of solids.[19]

In 1969 Thomas became Professor and Head of Chemistry at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he broadened his interests in solid-state, surface and materials chemistry and pioneered the application of electron microscopy in chemistry. In 1977 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[citation needed]

From 1978 to 1986, Thomas was at the University of Cambridge as Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry[6]: 856  (then a separate department from the Department of Chemistry, which covered Organic, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry) and Professorial Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He continued developing new techniques in solid-state and materials science, and designing and synthesising new catalysts. For example, he extended his earlier electron microscopic and surface studies of minerals and intercalates to encompass the synthesis and structural determination of zeolitic materials by a combination of solid-state NMR, neutron scattering, and real-space imaging.[citation needed]

Director of the Royal Institution

In 1986. Thomas succeeded Sir George Porter as Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London.[20][6]: xx  At this time, he began using synchrotron radiation and devised techniques which combine X-ray spectroscopy and high-resolution X-ray diffraction to determine the atomic structure of the active sites of solid catalysts under operating conditions. He also devised new mesoporous, microporous, and molecular sieve catalysts. In 1987 the BBC televised his Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on crystals, continuing the tradition of lectures for children started by Faraday in 1826. He resigned as Director in 1991 owing to his wife's poor health, but remained associated with the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution until 2006. In 1991 he published the book Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place, which has since been translated into Japanese (1994) and Italian (2007).[citation needed]

Return to Cambridge

After a period as Deputy Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales (1991–1994), Thomas returned to Cambridge in 1993 as Master of Peterhouse, the oldest college of the university, and as Honorary Distinguished Research Associate in the Department of Material Science, both of which posts he held until 2002, the year his wife died. During his tenure as Master of Peterhouse, his wife oversaw the renovation of the Master's Lodge, a 1702 building on Trumpington Street.[citation needed]

In 1997 he co-authored with W. John Thomas (no relation) the text Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis.[10] In 1999 he was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering[21] for work that "has profoundly added to the science-base of heterogeneous catalysis leading to the commercial exploitation of zeolites through engineering processes".

Thomas is the author of some thirty patents, some of which have made chemical processes more environmentally benign ("greener") by eliminating the use of solvents and reducing the number of manufacturing steps involved. The single-step, solvent-free catalytic synthesis of ethyl acetate that he invented is the basis of a 200,000 ton/year plant in the UK, the largest of its kind in the world. He has recently devised single-step, solvent-free processes for the production of caprolactam (the raw material for nylon-6) and vitamin B3 (niacin).[citation needed]

Awards and honours

Since 200, Thomas has been Honorary Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution. He also holds an Honorary Distinguished Professorship of Materials Chemistry at Cardiff University, an Honorary Distinguished Professorship of Materials Chemistry at the University of Southampton, and an Honorary Distinguished Professorship of Chemistry and Nanoscience at the University of York. He is an Advisory Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as well as at the Catalysis Center of Hokkaido University. He was recently appointed to the Advisory Committee on Science, Wales. He is an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn.[citation needed]

Thomas has received twenty honorary degrees from Australian, British, Canadian, Chinese, Dutch, Egyptian, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and U.S. universities, including an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1990. He has been elected to honorary membership in over fifteen foreign academies, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he was elected a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[22].

Recent awards include the Kapitza Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2011), the Jayne Prize Lectureship of the American Philosophical Society (2011), the Bragg Prize Lectureship of the British Crystallographic Association (2010), the Sven Berggren Prize Lectureship, Lund (2010), the Ertl Prize Lectureship of the Max Planck Gesellschaft (2010), the Sir George Stokes Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry (2005), the Giulio Natta Gold Medal from the Società Chimica Italiana (2004), the Linus Pauling Gold Medal from Stanford University (2003), and the American Chemical Society Annual Award (first recipient) for Creative Research in Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis (1999). He has won the Davy Medal of the Royal Society and the Faraday Lectureship Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1995 he became the first British scientist in 80 years to be awarded the Willard Gibbs Award by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society.

Yellowish-white hairy Meurigite on brown Ruifrancoite spheres

In recognition of his contributions to geochemistry, a new mineral, meurigite, was named after him in 1995 by the International Mineralogical Association.[23][24] A hydrated potassium iron phosphate, meurigite is described as "tabular, elongated crystals forming spherical and hemispherical clusters and drusy coatings. The colour ranges from creamy white to pale yellow and yellowish brown."[13] It is found in only a few locations worldwide, of which the designated type locality is the Santa Rita mine in New Mexico.[13]

Thomas's 75th birthday was celebrated at the University of Cambridge with a symposium and several musical and social events. It was attended by Angela Merkel and Ahmed Zewail. The papers presented were published in 2008 by the Royal Society of Chemistry as Turning Points in Solid-State, Materials and Surface Science: A Book in Celebration of the Life and Work of Sir John Meurig Thomas.[6]

In 2010 Imperial College Press published 4D Electron Microscopy: Imaging in Space and Time, which he co-authored with Ahmed Zewail (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 1999). His most recent publication is Design and Applications of Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts: Contributions to Green Chemistry, Clean Technology and Sustainability[citation needed]

In 2003, he was the first scientist to be awarded the Medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London) for services to Welsh culture and British public life. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Member of its inaugural Council. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Wales. He is an overseer of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia), and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Zewail City of Science and Technology (Egypt).[citation needed]

Thomas was also appointed as a Honorary Fellow[21] of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013. In 2016, he was conferred an Honorary Fellowship by Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), in view of his distinguished achievements in catalysis and materials science, and his dedication and outstanding contributions to the popularisation of science.[25]

In October 2016, the Royal Society awarded Thomas the Royal Medal for Physical Sciences "for his pioneering work within catalytic chemistry, in particular on single-site heterogeneous catalysts, which have had a major impact on green chemistry, clean technology and sustainability." The Duke of York represented Her Majesty the Queen at the ceremony.[26][27][28]

Also in 2016, the UK Catalysis Hub launched a new medal "honouring the achievements of Sir John Meurig Thomas, a distinguished professor in the field of catalysis." The JMT Medal will be awarded every year, to a person working in the United Kingdom, for outstanding achievement in catalysis or a closely related field.[29]

Selected scientific publications

Books

  • Introduction to the Principles of Heterogeneous Catalysis, 1967, Academic Press. (With W.J. Thomas).
  • Selections and Reflections: The Legacy of Sir Lawrence Bragg, 1990, Science Reviews. (With Lord David Phillips, editors).
  • Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place, 1991, Institute of Physics Publishing.[12]
  • Perspectives in Catalysis, 1992, Blackwells. (With K.I. Zamaraev, editors).
  • Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis, 1997, Wiley. (With W.J. Thomas)[10]
  • 4D Electron Microscopy: Imaging in Space and Time, 2010, Imperial College Press. (With A.H. Zewail).
  • Design and Applications of Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts: Contributions to Green Chemistry, Clean Technology and Sustainability, 2012, Imperial College Press.[30]

Part 1: On the design and application of solid catalysts

  • Sheet silicates: Broad spectrum catalysts for organic synthesis.[31](See also U.S. Patent 4,999,319 (1985), which is the basis of the world's largest solvent-free, single-step production of ethyl acetate.)
  • Uniform heterogeneous catalysts: The role of solid-state chemistry in their development and design.[32]
  • New micro-crystalline catalysts Bakerian Lecture 1990.[1]
  • Solid acid catalysts[33]
  • Heterogeneous catalysts obtained by grafting metallocene complexes onto mesoporous silica[34]
  • Design, synthesis and in situ characterisation of new solid catalysts[35](Linus Pauling Lecture, California Institute of Technology, March 1999 and Karl Ziegler Lecture, Max Planck Institute, Mülheim, November 1998.)
  • Molecular sieve catalysts for the regioselective and shape-selective oxyfunctionalization of alkanes in air[36]
  • Solvent-free routes to clean technology[37]
  • Constraining asymmetric organometallic catalysts within mesoporous supports boosts their enantioselectivity[38]
  • Highly efficient, one-step conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid using single-site heterogeneous catalysts[39]
  • Design of a "green" one-step catalytic production of ε-caprolactam (precursor of nylon-6)[40] See also [41][42]
  • The advantages and future potential of single-site heterogeneous catalysts[43]
  • Single-site photocatalytic solids for the decomposition of undesirable molecules (Focus Article)[44]
  • Innovations in oxidation catalysis leading to a sustainable society[45]
  • Systematic enumeration of microporous solids: Towards designer catalysts[46]
  • Facile, one-step production of niacin (vitamin B3) and other nitrogen-containing pharmaceutical chemicals with a single-site heterogeneous catalyst[47]
  • Nanoporous oxidic solids: The confluence of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis[48](Based on a lecture at the Symposium of Molecular Frontiers held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences in May 2008).
  • Heterogeneous catalysis: Enigmas, illusions, challenges, realities, and emergent strategies of design[49]
  • Can a single atom serve as the active site in some heterogeneous catalysts?[50]
  • The principles of solid state chemistry hold the key to the successful design of heterogeneous catalysts for environmentally responsible processes[51]

Part 2: On new techniques

  • Tracing the conversion of aurichalcite to a copper catalyst by combined X-ray absorption and diffraction[52]
  • Review lecture: Topography and topology in solid-state chemistry[53]
  • Resolving crystallographically distinct tetrahedral sites in silicalite and ZSM-5 by solid-state NMR[54]
  • Revolutionary developments from atomic to extended structural imaging[55]
  • Nanotomography in the chemical, biological and materials sciences[56] see also[57][58]
  • Mono- bi- and multifunctional single sites: exploring the interface between heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis[59]
  • The modern electron microscope: A cornucopia of chemico-physical insights[60]

References

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  32. ^ Thomas, J. M. (1988). "Uniform Heterogeneous Catalysts: The Role of Solid-State Chemistry in their Development and Design". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 27 (12): 1673. doi:10.1002/anie.198816731.
  33. ^ Thomas, S. J. M. (1992). "Solid Acid Catalysts". Scientific American. 266 (4): 112. Bibcode:1992SciAm.266d.112T. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0492-112.
  34. ^ Maschmeyer, T.; Rey, F.; Sankar, G.; Thomas, J. M. (1995). "Heterogeneous catalysts obtained by grafting metallocene complexes onto mesoporous silica". Nature. 378 (6553): 159. Bibcode:1995Natur.378..159M. doi:10.1038/378159a0.
  35. ^ Thomas, J. M. (1999). "Design, Synthesis, and in Situ Characterization of New Solid Catalysts". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 38 (24): 3588. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19991216)38:24<3588::AID-ANIE3588>3.0.CO;2-4.
  36. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Raja, R; Sankar, G; Bell, R. G. (2001). "Molecular sieve catalysts for the regioselective and shape- selective oxyfunctionalization of alkanes in air". Accounts of Chemical Research. 34 (3): 191–200. doi:10.1021/ar970020e. PMID 11263877.
  37. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Raja, R.; Sankar, G.; Johnson, B. F. G.; Lewis, D. W. (2001). "Solvent-Free Routes to Clean Technology". Chemistry: A European Journal. 7 (14): 2972. doi:10.1002/1521-3765(20010716)7:14<2972::AID-CHEM2972>3.0.CO;2-Z.
  38. ^ Raja, R; Thomas, J. M.; Jones, M. D.; Johnson, B. F.; Vaughan, D. E. (2003). "Constraining asymmetric organometallic catalysts within mesoporous supports boosts their enantioselectivity". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125 (49): 14982–3. doi:10.1021/ja030381r. PMID 14653721.
  39. ^ Raja, R; Thomas, J. M.; Xu, M; Harris, K. D.; Greenhill-Hooper, M; Quill, K (2006). "Highly efficient one-step conversion of cyclohexane to adipic acid using single-site heterogeneous catalysts". Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (4): 448–50. doi:10.1039/b513583d. PMID 16493832.
  40. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Raja, R. (2005). "Design of a "green" one-step catalytic production of -caprolactam (precursor of nylon-6)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (39): 13732. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10213732T. doi:10.1073/pnas.0506907102. PMC 1236590. PMID 16166260.
  41. ^ Raja, R.; Sankar, G.; Thomas, J. M. (2001). "Bifunctional Molecular Sieve Catalysts for the Benign Ammoximation of Cyclohexanone: One-Step, Solvent-Free Production of Oxime and ε-Caprolactam with a Mixture of Air and Ammonia". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123 (33): 8153. doi:10.1021/ja011001.
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  43. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Raja, R. (2006). "The advantages and future potential of single-site heterogeneous catalysts". Topics in Catalysis. 40: 3. doi:10.1007/s11244-006-0105-7.
  44. ^ Anpo, M; Thomas, J. M. (2006). "Single-site photocatalytic solids for the decomposition of undesirable molecules". Chemical Communications (31): 3273–8. doi:10.1039/b606738g. PMID 16883411.
  45. ^ Thomas, J.; Raja, R. (2006). "Innovations in oxidation catalysis leading to a sustainable society☆". Catalysis Today. 117: 22. doi:10.1016/j.cattod.2006.05.003.
  46. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Klinowski, J. (2007). "Systematic Enumeration of Microporous Solids: Towards Designer Catalysts". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46 (38): 7160. doi:10.1002/anie.200700666. PMID 17628479.
  47. ^ Raja, R; Thomas, J. M.; Greenhill-Hooper, M; Ley, S. V.; Almeida Paz, F. A. (2008). "Facile, one-step production of niacin (vitamin B3) and other nitrogen-containing pharmaceutical chemicals with a single-site heterogeneous catalyst". Chemistry: A European Journal. 14 (8): 2340–8. doi:10.1002/chem.200701679. PMID 18228543.
  48. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Hernandez-Garrido, J. C.; Raja, R; Bell, R. G. (2009). "Nanoporous oxidic solids: The confluence of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11 (16): 2799–825. Bibcode:2009PCCP...11.2799T. doi:10.1039/b819249a. PMID 19421495.
  49. ^ Thomas, J. M. (2008). "Heterogeneous catalysis: Enigmas, illusions, challenges, realities, and emergent strategies of design". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 128 (18): 182502. Bibcode:2008JChPh.128r2502T. doi:10.1063/1.2832309. PMID 18532787.
  50. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Saghi, Z.; Gai, P. L. (2011). "Can a Single Atom Serve as the Active Site in Some Heterogeneous Catalysts?". Topics in Catalysis. 54 (10–12): 588. doi:10.1007/s11244-011-9677-y.
  51. ^ Thomas, J. M. (2011). "The principles of solid state chemistry hold the key to the successful design of heterogeneous catalysts for environmentally responsible processes". Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 146: 3. doi:10.1016/j.micromeso.2011.05.025.
  52. ^ Couves, J. W.; Thomas, J. M.; Waller, D.; Jones, R. H.; Dent, A. J.; Derbyshire, G. E.; Greaves, G. N. (1991). "Tracing the conversion of aurichalcite to a copper catalyst by combined X-ray absorption and diffraction". Nature. 354 (6353): 465. Bibcode:1991Natur.354..465C. doi:10.1038/354465a0.
  53. ^ Thomas, J. M. (1974). "Review Lecture: Topography and Topology in Solid-State Chemistry". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 277 (1268): 251. Bibcode:1974RSPTA.277..251T. doi:10.1098/rsta.1974.0051.
  54. ^ Fyfe, C. A.; Gobbi, G. C.; Klinowski, J.; Thomas, J. M.; Ramdas, S. (1982). "Resolving crystallographically distinct tetrahedral sites in silicalite and ZSM-5 by solid-state NMR". Nature. 296 (5857): 530. Bibcode:1982Natur.296..530F. doi:10.1038/296530a0.
  55. ^ Thomas, J. M. (2008). "Revolutionary Developments from Atomic to Extended Structural Imaging". Physical Biology. pp. 51–114. doi:10.1142/9781848162013_0004. ISBN 978-1-84816-199-3.
  56. ^ Midgley, P. A.; Ward, E. P. W.; Hungría, A. B.; Thomas, J. M. (2007). "Nanotomography in the chemical, biological and materials sciences". Chemical Society Reviews. 36 (9): 1477. doi:10.1039/B701569K.
  57. ^ Midgley, P. A.; Weyland, M.; Thomas, J. M.; Johnson, B. F. G. (2001). "Z-Contrast tomography: A technique in three-dimensional nanostructural analysis based on Rutherford scattering". Chemical Communications (10): 907. doi:10.1039/B101819C.
  58. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Johnson, B. F. G.; Raja, R.; Sankar, G.; Midgley, P. A. (2003). "High-Performance Nanocatalysts for Single-Step Hydrogenations". Accounts of Chemical Research. 36: 20. doi:10.1021/ar990017q.
  59. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Raja, R. (2010). "Mono-, Bi- and Multifunctional Single-Sites: Exploring the Interface Between Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis". Topics in Catalysis. 53 (13–14): 848. doi:10.1007/s11244-010-9517-5.
  60. ^ Thomas, J. M.; Midgley, P. A. (2011). "The modern electron microscope: A cornucopia of chemico-physical insights". Chemical Physics. 385: 1. Bibcode:2011CP....385....1T. doi:10.1016/j.chemphys.2011.04.023.
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Academic offices
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