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• Professor Sir David King is a Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry, Director of 乐天堂app下载 Smith School of Enterprise and 乐天堂app下载 Environment at 乐天堂app下载 University of Oxford, Director of Research in Physical Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 University of Cambridge, Director of 乐天堂app下载 Collegio Carlo Alberto, Chancellor of 乐天堂app下载 University of Liverpool and a senior scientific adviser to UBS.
• Sir David has published over 500 papers on his research in chemical physics and on science and policy. He was elected as a Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society in 1991, Honorary Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 Indian Academy of Sciences in 1998 and Honorary Foreign Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. 
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