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Jan 28, 1930 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 94 years old
chemist and cricketer
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About A. David Buckingham
- Amyand David Buckingham, CBE, FRS, FAA (born 28 January 1930 in Pymble, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a chemist, with primary expertise in chemical physics.
- He is currently Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Emeritus Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
- He obtained a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, under Professor Raymond Le Fevre, from the University of Sydney and a Ph.D.
- from the University of Cambridge supervised by John Pople.
- He was an 1851 Exhibition Senior Student in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford from 1955–57, Lecturer and then Student (Fellow) at Christ Church, Oxford from 1955–65 and University Lecturer in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory from 1958 - 65.
- He was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bristol from 1965 - 69.
- He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1969. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975 and a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
- He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
- Buckingham was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2008 as a Corresponding Fellow. He was awarded the first Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences for pioneering contributions to the molecular sciences in 2006. He also played 10 first class cricket matches for Cambridge University and Free Foresters between 1955 and 1960, scoring 349 runs including two half-centuries at an average of 18.36..
- He was President of Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1990 and 2009.
