John Philip Simons

John Philip Simons (born 20 April 1934) is a British physical chemist known for his research in photochemistry and photophysics, molecular reaction dynamics and the spectroscopy of biological molecules.

Career Simons first worked at the University of Birmingham, successively holding positions as an ICI Fellow (1960), lecturer (1961–67), He retired in 1999.

Awards and honours Simons was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1979, and served as honorary secretary and president of the society's Faraday Division Other awards include the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Prize (1982–3), Chemical Dynamics Award Spiers Memorial Award (1999) and Liversidge Award (2007). He held a visiting Miller Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2005, a special edition of the journal Molecular Physics was published to honour Simons' seventieth birthday, the previous year.

Publications Photochemistry and Spectroscopy (Wiley-Interscience; 1971)