{{Short description|British material scientist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist |field=Materials Science | education =Emanuel School<ref name=whoswho/> |workplaces=University of Cambridge |alma_mater=Imperial College London (BSc, PhD) |honorific_suffix={{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FRSC|FREng|FIMMM|size=100%}} |awards=Beilby Medal and Prize (1981) | birth_name = Derek John Fray | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|12|26|df=y}}<ref name=whoswho/> | thesis_title = The conductance of molten salts at constant volume | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.622379 | thesis_year = 1965 | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_student = | website = {{URL|http://www.energy.cam.ac.uk/directory/djf25@cam.ac.uk}} }}
'''Derek John Fray''' (born 26 December 1939) is a British material scientist, and professor at the University of Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.energy.cam.ac.uk/directory/djf25@cam.ac.uk|title=Professor Derek Fray, FRS, FREng — Energy Research at the University of Cambridge|website=Emergy.cam.ac.uk|date=27 October 2010|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/department/profiles/fray.php|title=Derek Fray: Investigator Profiles|website=Msm.cam.ac.uk|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cei.cam.ac.uk/directory/djf25@cam.ac.uk |title=Professor Derek Fray — Cambridge Environmental Initiatives |access-date=December 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229174049/http://www.cei.cam.ac.uk/directory/djf25%40cam.ac.uk |archive-date=December 29, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccs.cam.ac.uk/directory/djf25@cam.ac.uk|title=Professor Derek Fray, FRS, FREng |website=Cei.cam.ac.uk|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazonplc.com/Projects/cerrado-verde-potash/phase-ii-conventional-potash/professor-derek-fray/default.aspx|title=Verde Potash Plc - Projects - Cerrado Verde Potash - Phase 2: Potassium Chloride - KCl - Professor Derek Fray|website=Amazonplc.com|access-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829025818/http://www.amazonplc.com/Projects/cerrado-verde-potash/phase-ii-conventional-potash/professor-derek-fray/default.aspx|archive-date=29 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Sanderson2009">{{cite journal|last1=Sanderson|first1=Katharine|title=How to breathe on the Moon|journal=Nature|year=2009|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/news.2009.803}}</ref>
==Education== Fray was educated at Emanuel School,<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Frey, Prof. Derek John | id = U16400 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U16400 | edition = online Oxford University Press|location=Oxford}}</ref> and earned a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD from Imperial College London.<ref name=dPhD>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of London|url=https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/16342|title=The conductance of molten salts at constant volume|first= Derek John|last=Fray|date=1965|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.622379}}|website=imperial.ac.uk|oclc=1006062294|hdl=10044/1/16342}} {{free access}}</ref>
==Career and research==
He was Professor of Material Chemistry and a Director of Research from 1996 to 2014 at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. Since 2015 he has held the title of a Distinguished Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Derek Fray is the main inventor of the FFC Cambridge process for the direct electrochemical reduction of metal oxides to metals and alloys along with co-inventors Tom Farthing and George Chen. The FFC Cambridge process has been commercialised by the Cambridge spin out company Metalysis, a company based in South Yorkshire.
He has published more than 450 papers and is cited as an inventor on 350 published patents. Several of these patents have been licensed to university spin-out companies of which he is a founding Director, including Metalysis, EMC, Camfridge, Chinuka and InotecAMD.
Fray is also a consultant to Verde Potash Plc,<ref name="businessweek">{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=6246608&ticker=NPK:CN&previousCapId=6233255&previousTitle=Metalysis%20Ltd|title=Verde Ptash Plc : Derek Fray BSc(Eng), MA, Ph.D., ARSM, DIC, FREng, FIMMM, FRSC|website=Investing.businessweek.com|access-date=2016-06-08}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and White Mountain Titanium Corporation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/white-mountain-appoints-professor-derek-fray-as-titanium-metal-technologies-consultant-57804157.html|title=White Mountain Appoints Professor Derek Fray as Titanium Metal Technologies Consultant|first=White Mountain Titanium|last=Corporation|website=Prnewswire.com|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref>
===Awards and honours=== Fray was awarded the Beilby Medal and Prize in 1981.<ref name="RSC-Beilby">{{cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/Beilby/winners.asp|title=Beilby Medal and Prize Winners|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|access-date=3 March 2015}}</ref> A symposium was held in his name in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flogen.com/FraySymposium/|title=Welcome to Fray International Symposium|website=Flogen.com|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref> Additionally, the award, Fray International Sustainability Award, was created in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|title=FLOGEN Star OUTREACH|url=http://www.flogen.org/awards.php?spage=2&sp=3&sp2=Derek_Fray_SIPS2011|website=www.flogen.org|language=en}}</ref> Fray was also a recipient of the Fray International Sustainability Award in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flogen.org/?p=38&bio=Fray|title=Derek Fray Winner of the Fray Award}}</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng){{when|date=November 2018}}<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|title=List of Fellows|website=Raeng.org.uk|access-date=8 June 2016|archive-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2008.<ref name=frs>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/derek-fray-11459/|title=Professor Derek Fray FREng FRS|author=Anon|year=2008|publisher=Royal Society|website=royalsociety.org|location=London}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=2016-11-11}}}}</ref>
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