Anthony R. West

Anthony Roy West FRSE, FRSC, FInstP, FIMMM (born 21 January 1947) is a British chemist and materials scientist, and Professor of Electroceramics and Solid State Chemistry at the University of Sheffield.

Education West was educated at The Harvey Grammar School and University College Swansea, where he gained a Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 1968. He then moved to the University of Aberdeen where he completed a PhD in 1971 under the supervision of Fredrik P. Glasser. the oxide ion conductor and much research on barium titanate, such as that on the La-doped high-permittivity dielectric. He discovered the first 5-volt cathode material for lithium battery applications.

One of his specialties has been development of the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (see dielectric spectroscopy) technique for materials characterisation and electrical property measurements. He developed the impedance and modulus spectroscopy technique of data analysis with his colleague at Aberdeen, Malcolm Ingram

Promotion of solid state and materials chemistry West's book Solid State Chemistry and its applications and its condensed version "Basic Solid State Chemistry" are well-regarded texts in the field. An updated version of the former as a student edition was published in 2014. and of the "Materials Chemistry" conference series in the UK, organising the first in Aberdeen in 1991.

West is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Awards: 2013 John B. Goodenough Award in Materials Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry 2009 Griffiths Medal and Prize, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 2008 Epsilon de Oro Award, Spanish Society of Ceramics and Glass 2007 Chemical Record Lectureship, Chemical Societies of Japan 2008/09 Catedra de Excelencia, Universidad Carlos III, Leganés, Spain 1996 Industrial Award in Solid State Chemistry, RSC 1988/89 Research Support Fellowship, Royal Society of Edinburgh Honorary member of Materials Research Society of India