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Peter Atkins
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British chemist
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Peter Atkins is a British chemist, writer, and university teacher born in Amersham in 1940. He is educated at the University of Leicester and has worked at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Los Angeles. He resides in Oxford and is married to Susan Greenfield. Atkins is associated with atheism and has received the Meldola Medal and Prize.
He is a non-fiction writer specializing in physical chemistry and popular science literature. His notable works include *Galileo's Finger*, *Moontown*, *The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010*, *Achieve for Chemical Principles*, and *Chemical Principles*. He has authored 136 works and speaks English.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 136
Top works
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
- Galileo's Finger
- Moontown
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
- Achieve for Chemical Principles
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Family name
- Atkins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Amersham
- Spouse
- Susan Greenfield
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Movement
- atheism
- Image
- Peter William Atkins (the chemist) cropped.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Oxford
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- Commons category
- Peter Atkins
- date of birth
- 1940-08-10
- interested in
- physical chemistry
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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