Bill David

Professor Bill David is STFC Senior Fellow at the ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and spends a third of his time as Visiting Professor in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory where his principal research focusis energy materials and particularly new materials for hydrogen storage. His broader research interests include the development of neutron and X-ray scattering techniques for the analysis of new materials, materials synthesis and materials processing. Using ISIS, he discovered the crystal structures of the first liquid-nitrogen high-temperature conductor and also the most symmetrical form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene. He has also developed methodologies for elucidating the crystal structures of pharmaceutical compounds under real-life conditions. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and was awarded the IOP CV Boys Prize in 1990. He was also awarded the Inaugural British Crystallography Association (BCA) Prize (2002) and the European Society for Applied Physical Chemistry Prize (2006).