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85
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27476
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2653
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140

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2004 - Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1990 - Corday–Morgan Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Patrick W. Fowler is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, with a research profile focused on the intersection of mathematics, chemistry, and engineering. Their scholarly activity spans multiple fields with significant contributions in mathematics (25 publications), chemistry (20 publications), and engineering (18 publications).

The researcher's work is particularly concentrated within several subfields including organic chemistry, geometry and topology, electrical and electronic engineering, discrete mathematics and combinatorics, and computational theory and mathematics. Key research topics covered by Fowler consist of graph theory and applications, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, finite group theory research, graph theory in CDMA systems, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, fullerene chemistry and applications, and molecular junctions and nanostructures.

Frequent publishing venues include arXiv (Cornell University) with 8 publications, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A with 4, match Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry with 4, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics with 2, and ChemPhysChem with 2, showing diversity in both mathematics and chemistry contexts.

Selected recent papers exemplify the range of Fowler's research interests:

  • "Modelling aromatisation of (BN)nH2n azabora-annulenes" (2020), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Existence of Regular Nut Graphs for Degree at Most 11" (2020), DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • "Ring-Current Maps for Benzenoids: Comparisons, Contradictions, and a Versatile Combinatorial Model" (2020), The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • "Equiauxetic Hinged Archimedean Tilings" (2022), Symmetry
  • "Design of annulene-within-an-annulene systems by the altanisation approach. A study of altan- [n]annulenes" (2020), Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Among frequent collaborators are Nino Bašić, Tomaž Pisanski, Cate S. Anstöter, Barry T. Pickup, and Irene Sciriha, indicating interdisciplinary and international cooperation.

Patrick W. Fowler has been recognized with several awards during their career including the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1990, the Tilden Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2004, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2012.

Best Publications

  • An atlas of fullerenes

    P. W. Fowler;D. E. Manolopoulos

  • Theoretical studies of van der Waals molecules and intermolecular forces

    A. D. Buckingham;P. W. Fowler;Jeremy M. Hutson

  • Patterns of Ring Currents in Conjugated Molecules: A Few-Electron Model Based on Orbital Contributions

    E. Steiner;P. W. Fowler

  • Tracking heavy water (D2O) incorporation for identifying and sorting active microbial cells

    David Berry;Esther Mader;Tae Kwon Lee;Dagmar Woebken

  • Do electrostatic interactions predict structures of van der Waals molecules

    A. D. Buckingham;P. W. Fowler

  • A stable non-classical metallofullerene family

    S. Stevenson;P. W. Fowler;T. Heine;J. C. Duchamp

  • Boron-nitrogen analogues of the fullerenes: electronic and structural properties

    G. Seifert;P.W. Fowler;D. Mitchell;D. Porezag

  • Molecular graphs, point groups, and fullerenes

    David E. Manolopoulos;Patrick W. Fowler

  • Four- and two-electron rules for diatropic and paratropic ring currents in monocyclic π systems

    Erich Steiner;Patrick W. Fowler

  • How unusual is C60? Magic numbers for carbon clusters

    P.W. Fowler

  • Counter‐Rotating Ring Currents in Coronene and Corannulene

    Erich Steiner;Patrick W. Fowler;Leonardus W. Jenneskens

  • Ring Currents and Aromaticity of Monocyclic π-Electron Systems C6H6, B3N3H6, B3O3H3, C3N3H3, C5H5-, C7H7+, C3N3F3, C6H3F3, and C6F6

    Patrick W. Fowler;Erich Steiner

  • Electric and magnetic properties of the aromatic sixty-carbon cage

    Pw Fowler;Paolo Lazzeretti;Roberto Zanasi

  • Structure and Bonding in B6 - and B6: Planarity and Antiaromaticity

    Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Pentagon adjacency as a determinant of fullerene stability

    E Albertazzi;C Domene;P W. Fowler;T Heine

  • π-Systems in three dimensions

    P.W. Fowler;J. Woolrich

  • Velocity-dependent property surfaces and the theory of vibrational circular dichroism

    A.D. Buckingham;P.W. Fowler;P.A. Galwas

  • Electronic Structure of Small Fullerenes: Evidence for the High Stability of C 32

    Hardy Kietzmann;Regina Rochow;Gerd Ganteför;Wolfgang Eberhardt

  • Electron Deficiency of the Fullerenes

    Pw Fowler;Arnout Ceulemans

  • Ring currents in aromatic hydrocarbons

    Erich Steiner;Patrick W. Fowler

Frequent Co-Authors

Remco W. A. Havenith
Remco W. A. Havenith University of Groningen
Simon D. Guest
Simon D. Guest University of Cambridge
Francesco Zerbetto
Francesco Zerbetto University of Bologna
David E. Manolopoulos
David E. Manolopoulos University of Oxford
Riccardo Zanasi
Riccardo Zanasi University of Salerno
Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor University of Brighton
Thomas Heine
Thomas Heine TU Dresden
Michel Deza
Michel Deza École Normale Supérieure
Anthony C. Legon
Anthony C. Legon University of Bristol

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