Peter wothers biography

British chemist and author

Peter David Wothers, MBE, is a British chemist and author of several popular textbooks aimed at university students. He is a teaching fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.^[2][3]

Education

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Wothers was educated at Bedford Modern School and represented the UK at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 1987, winning a silver medal.

He read natural sciences at St Catharine's College, Cambridge,^[4] where he received his PhD in 1996 for investigations into the anomeric effect.^[5][6][7][8]

Research

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Wothers has co-authored the first edition of the well-known and best-selling Organic Chemistry^[9] textbook together with Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves and his fellow Cambridge lecturer Stuart Warren.

His two other popular works Why Chemical Reactions Happen^[1