Prof Tony Downs

Career: Salters' fell Dept of Inorganic Chemistry Univ of Cambridge 1961-1962; sr demonstrator then lectr Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne 1962-66; Univ of Oxford: sr res offr 1966-71, lectr 1971-96, prof of chemistry 1996-, dep/actg head Inorganic Chemistry Lab 1996-2003; Jesus Coll Oxford: fell and tutor 1966-2003, tutor for admissions 1973-76 and 1980, vice-princ 1986-89 and 1994, emeritus fell 2003-; memb numerous ctees of RSC and Engineering and Physical Sciences Res Cncl (and its earlier incarnations), memb various editorial bds of scientific jls; memb Bd of Govrs Colfe's Sch 1983-98

Books and Publications: Spectroscopy of Matrix Isolated Species (jtly, 1989), Chemistry of Aluminium, Gallium, Indium and Thallium (ed and author, 1993), The Group 13 Metals Aluminium, Gallium, Indium and Thallium: Chemical Patterns and Peculiarities (ed and author, 2011); author of numerous papers and review articles in Jl of the ACS and other learned jls 1960-