Peter Jaffrey Wheatley was a British

British people

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 chemist, who published over 100 papers and 5 books on physical chemistry, crystallography and structural chemistry.

Early years

Wheatley was born in 1921. He was educated at King Edward VII School

King Edward VII School (Sheffield)

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  (photo) in Sheffield

Sheffield

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, where he was Head Prefect in 1938/1940, Captain of cricket for 2 years and 1st XI footballer for 4; and The Queen's College, Oxford

The Queen's College, Oxford

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, where he obtained a First in Chemistry, followed by a D.Phil as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton

Merton College, Oxford

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, working with Jack Linnett.

Career

• 1940-45 Joined the Royal Artillery as Bombardier; captured at the fall of Singapore, prisoner-of-war interned in Malaya.
• 1946 Returned to Oxford as undergraduate
• 1948 Junior Research Fellow at Merton
  Merton College, Oxford
  Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to...
  
  
• 1950 Lectureship in Chemistry at University of Leeds
  University of Leeds
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• 1957 Monsanto in Zurich
• 1966 Visiting Professor at Tucson
• 1967 Lectureship in Physical Chemistry; elected to a Fellowship at Queens' College, Cambridge
  Queens' College, Cambridge
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Publications

• Determination of Molecular Structure,Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1959.
• Chemical Consequences of Nuclear Spin, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1970.