Alan R. Katritzky

Who was Alan R. Katritzky?

Alan Roy Katritzky FRS was a British-born American chemist, latterly working at the University of Florida.

Alan Katritzky gained both his BA and DPhil from Oxford University between 1952 and 1958, and moved to Cambridge in 1959 to be a postdoctoral fellow.

He became professor at the University of East Anglia in 1963. In 1980 he moved to the University of Florida, where he runs a research group of some 40 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows working on synthetic methods, QSPR and other topics.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980.