Peter Edwards (chemist)
[1] Edwards is the recipient of the Corday-Morgan Medal (1985),[2] the Tilden Lectureship (1993–94)[3] and Liversidge Award (1999)[4] of the Royal Society of Chemistry.He has made seminal contributions to fields including superconductivity and the behaviour of metal nanoparticles, and has greatly advanced our understanding of the phenomenology of the metal-insulator transition".[7] In 2012 he was awarded the Bakerian Lecture by the Royal Society "in recognition of decisive contributions to the physics, chemistry and materials science of condensed matter, including work on the metal-insulator transition".[8] In the spring of 2012 he was elected International Member of the American Philosophical Society;[9] one of only four people from the UK in that year to be awarded this honour across all subjects and disciplines.[12][13] Together with Tiancun Xiao and John Thomas and their teams Edwards demonstrated in 2020 a new method using microwaves to initiate the catalytic decomposition of plastic waste to generate hydrogen and multiwalled carbon nanotubes.