John Joule

John Arthur Joule did his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees at the University of Manchester, obtaining his PhD (with George Smith) in 1961. He then undertook post-doctoral work at with Professor Richard K. Hill at Princeton University and Professor Carl Djerassi at Stanford University. Then in 1963 he joined the academic staff of the Chemistry Department at the University of Manchester, where he is currently a Professor. In 1996 he received an RSC Medal for Heterocyclic Chemistry. He co-wrote the textbook Heterocyclic Chemistry, initially with George Smith, but then with other authors in later editions.