William I. F. David
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William I. F. David FRS |
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Bill David at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Structural phase transitions in ferroic ABO⁴ crystals (1981) |
| Notable awards | John B Goodenough Award |
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Willam I. F. David FRS is Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, an STFC Senior Fellow at the ISIS neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.
David was educated at St Catherine's College, Oxford where he read Physics as an undergraduate student. He completed his postgraduate work in the Clarendon Laboratory and was awarded his DPhil degree from the University of Oxford in 1981 for research supervised by Anthony Michael Glazer. Following his PhD, he was a postdoctoral researcher supervised by John B. Goodenough in Oxford.
David has made significant contributions to the development of neutron diffraction and X-ray powder diffraction. Highlights include the comprehensive crystal-structure analysis of C₆₀ (Buckminsterfullerene), and the accelerated determination of molecular crystal structures through his computer program, DASH. His theoretical work is based around the application of Bayesian probability theory in areas ranging from structural incompleteness to parametric data analysis.
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