Prof wins prestigious thermal analysis and calorimetry award
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:01:00 BST
Emeritus Professor Ted Charsley becomes the only Brit to win the prestigious French Prix Calvet Award
A UNIVERSITY of Huddersfield professor is the first UK scientist to receive the most distinguished prize to be awarded by a leading French body.
Ted Charsley is now an Emeritus Professor of the University, where he headed the Centre for Thermal Studies, which relocated to Huddersfield in 1997. He is also a consultant for the University’s commercial chemistry research unit named IPOS. He is long-established as a leading authority in the field of thermal analysis and calorimetry.
Now he is the first Briton to have been awarded the Prix Calvet that is bestowed every two years by L’Association Française de Calorimétrie et d’Analyse Thermique (AFCAT). The award is named after the distinguished French calorimetrist Professor Edouard Calvet.
Professor Charsley will receive the prize when the AFCAT holds its conference in Montpellier in May. He will also deliver a lecture on the topic of energetic materials and he will make reference to his latest area of research. In conjunction with the University’s Dr Gareth Parkes and Jim Rooney, he has been applying the technique known as sample controlled thermal analysis to differential scanning calorimetry. His work in this field is one of the factors named by the committee that assembled to decide on the 2015 Prix Calvet winner.
France can be regarded as the home of sample controlled thermal analysis techniques, said Professor Charsley.
He has over 40 years’ experience in the application of thermal analysis and allied techniques to the study of industrial problems and before commencing his academic career he was research director of Stanton Redcroft Ltd. He has authored over 120 publications and has two patents.
He has held office in a number of organisations and in 2007 he received the Mettler-Toledo Award of the North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS) and in 2008 the NATAS Fellows Award, when he also became the first English scientist to be awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership of International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, of which he is a Past President. He became an Emeritus Professor of the University of Huddersfield in 2008.
The award of the Prix Calvet coincides with the 50th anniversary of Thermal Methods Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which is the UK equivalent of AFCAT, said Professor Charsley. The anniversary was marked by a special event at Churchill College, Cambridge, in April, at which all the past chairmen of the Group – including Professor Charsley – were presented with certificates of appreciation.
