Wyndham John Albery FRS[1] (5 April 1936 – 3 December 2013) was a British physical chemist and academic.

[6] Coming from the theatrical Albery family, he was an enthusiastic senior member of the University College Players, organiser of the Univ Revue,[7] held in the college Hall, and script-writer for Experimental Theatre Club revues staged by the Etceteras.

Early in his career, in 1962, he wrote for ground-breaking BBC satirical comedy television show That Was The Week That Was.

[13] Albery was a long-term collaborator of Jeremy Knowles, and published many articles with him, for example in studying the energetics of the reaction catalysed by proline racemase.

[6] A memorial service was held at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford on 5 April 2014 with tributes by Leslie Mitchell and Robert Hillman.