School of Chemistry

The School is the second largest department of Chemistry in the UK, and one of the handful which are truly internationally competitive.

The School continues Manchester's long and distinguished history of chemical innovation, from the birth of modern chemistry with John Dalton, through to recent Nobel Prize winners, Manchester students John Polanyi and Michael Smith.

The School has comprehensive academic coverage across the chemical sciences, and excellence in all the core sub-disciplines of chemistry.

We have outstanding facilities, including 11 high resolution and two solid state NMR spectrometers, three area detectors and several powder systems for X-ray crystallography, and the UK's national EPR service.

Our research has been recognised by both funding bodies, who are currently providing more than £34 million of research grants, and by numerous national and international prizes and awards.

All of our core areas of research achieved the outstanding score of 5, meaning that the research quality is of international excellence, in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.

For full details on the research activities in this area, visit the School research pages:

• School of Chemistry - Our Research

Alternatively search the profiles of our research staff, including contact details and research interests:

• Search research staff profiles

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