Peter Atkins Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College in the University of Oxford and the author of about seventy books for students and a general audience. A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professoships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand. He was the founding chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and was a member of IUPAC's Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division. Peter was the 2016 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Grady-Stack Award for journalism. Read More Read Less