{{short description|British chemist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Graham John Hutchings''' is a British chemist, Professor for Research at Cardiff University.<ref>{{cite web|author=Prof Graham Hutchings - FLSW FRS |url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chemy/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/hutchings-graham-overview_new.html |title=Professor Graham Hutchings BSc PhD DSc CEng CSci CChem FIChemE FRSC FLSW FRS |publisher=Cardiff.ac.uk |date=2011-05-27 |accessdate=2012-08-08}}</ref>

He gained his BSc in 1972 at University College London, a PhD from University College in 1975 in Biological Chemistry and a DSc from the University of London in 2002 for his work on heterogeneous catalysis.

His scientific career has included being Scientific Officer (1975–79) and Research and Production Manager (1979-1981) at ICI Petrochemicals and Chief Scientific Officer at AE & CI (African Explosives and Chemical Industries), Modderfontein, South Africa (1981–84). He was then in turn Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand (1984–87) followed by Assistant Director (1984–94) and Professor and Deputy Director (1994–97) at the Leverhulme Centre for Innovative Catalysis, University of Liverpool.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chemy/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/hutchings-graham-biography_new.html|title= Prof Graham Hutchings - FLSW FRS|publisher= University of Cardiff|accessdate = 12 September 2013}}</ref>

He was then Professor of Physical Chemistry, Cardiff University (1997) and Head of School for Chemistry (1997–2006) and Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Cardiff Catalysis Institute (2008-2019).<ref name = CSC>{{cite web|url = http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chemy/newsandevents/news/royal-society-fellowship-award.html|title= Graham Hutchings elected FRS|publisher= Cardiff School for Chemistry|accessdate = 27 July 2013}}</ref>

From 2010 until 2013 he was chairman of SCORE, (Science Community Representing Education),<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=412478&sectioncode=26 |title=Appointments |publisher=Times Higher Education |date=2010-07-15 |accessdate=2012-08-08}}</ref> Director of the UK Catalysis Hub, 2012-2017 and 2018-2019, and President of the Faraday Division of the RSC 2012-2015. In 2016, Hutchings became the first Regius Professor of Chemistry of the University on the newly founded chair in Cardiff.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-38264213 | title =Cardiff University chemistry professor's royal title | last = | first = | date =9 December 2016 | website =www.bbc.com/news/ | publisher =BBC News | access-date =3 March 2017 | quote = }}</ref>

==Honours and awards== * 2009 Surfaces and Interfaces Award<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/archives/surfaces-and-interfaces-award/ | title=Surfaces and Interfaces Award }}</ref> *2009 Fellow of the Royal Society<ref name = CSC/> *2013 Davy Medal of Royal Society ''"for the discovery of catalysis by gold and for his seminal contributions to this new field of chemistry"'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/awards/davy-medal/|title = Davy Medal - Most recent medallist|publisher = The Royal Society|accessdate = 12 September 2013}}</ref> *2017 ENI Award for Advanced Environmental Solutions *2018 Faraday Lectureship Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/FaradayLectureshipPrize/Index.asp|title=Faraday Lectureship Prize |publisher= RSC|accessdate= 19 May 2018}}</ref> *2018 CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.icheme.org/media_centre/news/2018/icheme-fellows-receive-queens-birthday-honours.aspx|title= IChemE Fellows receive Queen's Birthday Honours|publisher= IChemE|accessdate= 13 June 2018|archive-date= 13 June 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180613210542/https://www.icheme.org/media_centre/news/2018/icheme-fellows-receive-queens-birthday-honours.aspx|url-status= dead}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/chemy/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/hutchings-graham-publications_new.html Publications] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw5tWLLmW-I Professor Graham Hutchings FRS]

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