Richard N. Dixon

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Richard N. Dixon was born in Brorough Green, Kent, England, on Dec 25, 1930, and was the Alfred Capper Pass Professor of Chemistry and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bristol. He received his B.Sc. degree (1951) from London University and Ph.D. (1955) and Sc.D. degrees from Cambridge University. After a spell with the UKAEA, he was a post-doctoral fellow in Canada at the University of Western Ontario (1956-1957) and the National Research Council (1957-1959). He returned to England to the University of Sheffield in 1959 and was appointed Professor at Bristol in 1969. He was an ICI Fellow (1959-1960) and the Sorby Research Fellow of the Royal Society (1964-1960) and was elected FRS in 1966. He won the Corday-Morgan medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry for 1966 and their medal for spectroscopy in 1984. His research centered on molecular spectroscopy, photochemistry, energy transfer, and molecular quantum dynamics. He served on the Editorial Boards of several journals, and was Vice-President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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