Ruth Marion Lynden-Bell

Background

Lynden-Bell, Ruth Marion was born on December 7, 1937 in Welwyn, Herts, United Kingdom. Daughter of David Netherclift and Priscilla Margaret (Skinner) Truscott.

Education

She obtained degrees from the University of Cambridge, became a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Sussex, and later returned to Cambridge. In 1995, she moved to Queen"s University Belfast as a co-founder of the interdisciplinary Atomistic Simulation Group (now the Atomistic Simulation Centre). She was elected to the Royal Society in 2006 and was awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship in 2003.

Career

Lynden-Bell researches atomistic simulation to investigate the properties of liquids. She is an Emerita Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College, Cambridge), and was an Associate of Newnham College, Cambridge. She was acting President of Murray Edwards College from January 2012 - December 2012.

She was a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen"s and still collaborates on research.

Achievements

• Ruth Marion Lynden-Bell has been listed as a noteworthy chemist, physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Membership

Royal Society]

She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters and Science and was an editor of Molecular Physics from 1998 to 2003, as well as having been a member of Boards of Electors to Professorial positions in Sweden, the Republic of Ireland, and Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Interests

• Walking, gardening.

Connections

Married Donald Lynden-Bell, July 1, 1961. Children: Marion, Edward.

Father:

David Netherclift Truscott

Mother:

Priscilla Margaret (Skinner) Truscott

Spouse:

Donald Lynden-Bell

child:

Edward Lynden-Bell

child:

Marion Lynden-Bell