Peter Atkins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Atkins

British chemist

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1940

Place of Birth: Amersham, England, United Kingdom

Profession: chemist, university teacher, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Peter William Atkins (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.
He retired in 2007.
He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics.
Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.