John Albery

Wyndham John Albery, FRS (5 April 1936 – 3 December 2013) was a British physical chemist and academic.
Early life
Albery was born on 5 April 1936. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He undertook his D.Phil. with Ronnie Bell, starting in 1960.
Academic career
Albery was appointed to a Weir Junior Research Fellowship in October 1962 and then to a Fellowship and Praelectorship in Chemistry at University College, Oxford in October 1963, where he was briefly a colleague of E. J. Bowen. He served at University as Junior Dean and Dean, and was Tutor for Admissions from 1968–75. This period culminated in University College coming top of the Norrington Table in 1975.
Coming from the theatrical Albery family, he was an enthusiastic senior member of the University College Players, organizer of the Univ Revue, held in the college Hall, and script-writer for Experimental Theatre Club revues staged by the Etceteras...