David Buckingham, Born 1930
professor of chemistry and cricketer
David Buckingham obtained a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was an 1851 Exhibition Senior Student in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford from 1955 to 1957, Lecturer and then Student (Fellow) at Christ Church, Oxford from 1955 to 1965 and University Lecturer in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory from 1958 to 1965. He was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bristol from 1965 to 1969. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1969. He recieved numerous acadmic awards, including the Harrie Massey Medal of the Institute of Physics. There was also a new unit of molecular measurement, the Buckingham, named in his honour. He was an accomplished cricketer, who played 10 first class cricket matches for Cambridge University and Free Foresters between 1955 and 1960, scoring 349 runs including two half-centuries.