Derek Fray Explained

Field:Materials Science
Education:Emanuel School
Workplaces:University of Cambridge
Alma Mater:Imperial College London (BSc, PhD)
Awards:Beilby Medal and Prize (1981)
Birth Name:Derek John Fray
Birth Date:26 December 1939
Thesis Title:The conductance of molten salts at constant volume
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.622379
Thesis Year:1965

Derek John Fray [1] (born 26 December 1939) is a British material scientist, and professor at the University of Cambridge.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Education

Fray was educated at Emanuel School, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD from Imperial College London.[8]

Career and research

He was Professor of Material Chemistry and a Director of Research from 1996 to 2014 at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. Since 2015 he has held the title of a Distinguished Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

Derek Fray is the main inventor of the FFC Cambridge process for the direct electrochemical reduction of metal oxides to metals and alloys along with co-inventors Tom Farthing and George Chen. The FFC Cambridge process has been commercialised by the Cambridge spin out company Metalysis, a company based in South Yorkshire.

He has published more than 450 papers and is cited as an inventor on 350 published patents. Several of these patents have been licensed to university spin-out companies of which he is a founding Director, including Metalysis, EMC, Camfridge, Chinuka and InotecAMD.

Fray is also a consultant to Verde Potash Plc,[9] and White Mountain Titanium Corporation.[10]

Awards and honours

Fray was awarded the Beilby Medal and Prize in 1981.[11] A symposium was held in his name in 2011.[12] Additionally, the award, Fray International Sustainability Award, was created in his honor.[13] Fray was also a recipient of the Fray International Sustainability Award in 2011.[14] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)[1] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2008.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Fellows. Raeng.org.uk. 8 June 2016. 8 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows. dead.
  2. Web site: Professor Derek Fray, FRS, FREng — Energy Research at the University of Cambridge. Emergy.cam.ac.uk. 27 October 2010. 8 June 2016.
  3. Web site: Derek Fray: Investigator Profiles. Msm.cam.ac.uk. 8 June 2016.
  4. Web site: Professor Derek Fray — Cambridge Environmental Initiatives . December 17, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111229174049/http://www.cei.cam.ac.uk/directory/djf25%40cam.ac.uk . December 29, 2011 .
  5. Web site: Professor Derek Fray, FRS, FREng . Cei.cam.ac.uk. 8 June 2016.
  6. Web site: Verde Potash Plc - Projects - Cerrado Verde Potash - Phase 2: Potassium Chloride - KCl - Professor Derek Fray. Amazonplc.com. 8 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160829025818/http://www.amazonplc.com/Projects/cerrado-verde-potash/phase-ii-conventional-potash/professor-derek-fray/default.aspx. 29 August 2016. dead.
  7. Sanderson. Katharine. How to breathe on the Moon. Nature. 2009. 0028-0836. 10.1038/news.2009.803.
  8. PhD. University of London. The conductance of molten salts at constant volume. Derek John. Fray. 1965. . imperial.ac.uk. 1006062294. 10044/1/16342.
  9. Web site: Verde Ptash Plc : Derek Fray BSc(Eng), MA, Ph.D., ARSM, DIC, FREng, FIMMM, FRSC. Investing.businessweek.com. 2016-06-08.
  10. Web site: White Mountain Appoints Professor Derek Fray as Titanium Metal Technologies Consultant. White Mountain Titanium. Corporation. Prnewswire.com. 8 June 2016.
  11. Web site: Beilby Medal and Prize Winners. Royal Society of Chemistry. 3 March 2015.
  12. Web site: Welcome to Fray International Symposium. Flogen.com. 8 June 2016.
  13. Web site: FLOGEN Star OUTREACH. www.flogen.org. en.
  14. Web site: Derek Fray Winner of the Fray Award.
  15. Web site: Professor Derek Fray FREng FRS. Anon. 2008. Royal Society. royalsociety.org. London. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: