Education
Gray attended Newport High School. Gray was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences in 1946 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry three years later.
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Career
In 1955 Gray was appointed a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Leeds. He was promoted to Reader in 1959 and to a personal chair as Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1962. He became Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry on the resignation of Lord Dainton in 1965.
His research interests included combustion flame and explosion oscillatory reactions and chaos in chemistry.
Gray left Leeds when he was elected Master of his old college Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1988. He remained Master until 1996 and was then a Life Fellow of the college until his death in 2012.
Achievements
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Professor Gray’s career was garlanded with many academic honours, including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 1977. Gray was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Leeds in 1997. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 19??. His nomination reads:.
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Royal Society.
