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Peter Murray-Rust
Born1941 (age 82–83)
Guildford
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known for
AwardsHerman Skolnik Award
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Cheminformatics
Institutions
Thesis A structural investigation of some systems showing charge-transfer properties  (1969)
Website

Peter Murray-Rust is a contemporary chemist born in Guildford in 1941.

Education

He was educated at Bootham School and Balliol College, Oxford. After obtaining a Doctor of Philosophy he became lecturer in chemistry at the (new) University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Residence. In 1982 he moved to Glaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics,[1] Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination. He was Professor of Pharmacy in the University of Nottingham from 1996-2000, setting up the Virtual School of Molecular Sciences. He is now Reader in Molecular Informatics at the University of Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College.

Research

His research interests have involved the automated analysis of data in scientific publications, creation of virtual communities e.g. The Virtual School of Natural Sciences in the Globewide Network Academy and the Semantic Web. With Henry Rzepa he has extended this to chemistry through the development of markup languages, especially Chemical Markup Language.[2] He campaigns for Open Data, particularly in science, and is on the advisory board of the Open Knowledge Foundation and a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open scientific data.[3] Together with a few other chemists he was a founder member of the Blue Obelisk movement in 2005.[4][5][6]

In 2002, Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues proposed an electronic repository for unpublished chemical data called the World Wide Molecular Matrix (WWMM). In January 2011 a symposium around his career and visions was organized, called Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future.[7][8][9][10] In 2011 he and Henry Rzepa were joint recipients of the Herman Skolnik Award of the American Chemical Society.[11]

References

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  3. ^ http://pantonprinciples.org/ Panton Principles for Open data in science
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  6. ^ The Blue Obelisk, CDK News, 2005, 2, 43–46
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  8. ^ CCL Archives, 2010, http://ccl.net/chemistry/resources/messages/2010/11/12.005-dir/
  9. ^ Meeting Archives and publications, 2011, http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/238409
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  11. ^ CCL Archives, 2011, http://www.ccl.net/cgi-bin/ccl/message-new?2011+09+26+014

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