John Joule

John Arthur Joule is a British academic and chemist.

He then undertook post-doctoral work at with Professor Richard K. Hill at Princeton University and Professor Carl Djerassi at Stanford University.

In 1963 he joined the academic staff of the Chemistry Department at the University of Manchester, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor.

In 2014, he received the Marie Curie Medal conferred by the Polish Chemical Society.

[2] He co-wrote the textbook Heterocyclic Chemistry, initially with George Smith, but then with other authors in later editions.