David Phillips, CBE, FRSC, FRS (born 3 December 1939)[1] is a British chemist specialising in photochemistry and lasers, and was president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012.

[1] Phillips began his career doing postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

[3][4] He was appointed a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Southampton, rising to the status of Reader then becoming Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy, at the Royal Institution.

[5] In 1989 he moved to Imperial College, London as professor of physical chemistry and held a number of senior posts there.

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