John Murdo Chalmers

Background

Chalmers, John Murdo was born on November 13, 1946 in London. Son of Frank Ernest and Margaret Mary (Maciver) Chalmers.

Career

Laboratory assistant plastics division, ICI, Welwyn Garden City, England, 1965-1968; experimental scientist petrochemicals and plastics division, ICI, Welwyn Garden City, England, 1968-1982; research scientist advanced materials, ICI, Wilton, Cleveland., England, 1982-1988; senior research scientist materials research center, ICI, Wilton, Cleveland., England, 1988-1991; business research associate Wilton Research Center, ICI, since 1991. Visiting lecturer School of Chemical Sciences, U. East Anglia, Norwich, England, since 1992.

Achievements

• John Murdo Chalmers has been listed as a noteworthy Vibration spectroscopist, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal Society Chemistry (committee analytical division molecular spectroscopy group, honorary treasurer 1991-1995, vice chairman 1995-1998, chairman 1996-1998), Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (meetings secretary 1993-1995, chairman since 1995), Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Coblentz Society (Williams-Wright award 1994), United Kingdom Microspectrometry Applications Group, Microbeam Analysis Society, Association British Spectroscopists (chairman since 1998).

Interests

• Avocations: sailing, gardening, walking, do-it-yourself.

Connections

Married Shelley Cliff, April 26, 1975. 1 child, Elizabeth Margaret.

Father:

Frank Ernest Chalmers

Mother:

Margaret Mary (Maciver) Chalmers

Spouse:

Shelley Cliff

child:

Elizabeth Margaret Chalmers