Information AboutPeter Atkins |
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Atkins (who is an atheist) has also written and spoken on issues of Humanism , Atheism , and what he sees as the incompatibility between Science and Religion . He is the Senior Member for the Oxford Secular Society . Peter Atkins studied chemistry at the University Of Leicester , obtaining a bachelor's degree in chemistry and in 1964 a Ph.D. for research into Electron Spin Resonance . In 1969 , he won the Royal Society Of Chemistry 's Meldola Medal . Atkins then taught physical chemistry at UCLA and later at Lincoln College, Oxford , where he has been ever since. Atkins married fellow scientist Susan Greenfield (later Baroness Greenfield) in 1990 . The couple divorced in 2003 . Professor Atkins is known to lecture Quantum Courses at the University Of Oxford . EXTERNAL LINKS
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