Peter Hore

I have spent most of my life in the Chemistry Department at Oxford, as an undergraduate (1973-1977), graduate (1977-1980), Junior Research Fellow (1982-83) and, since 1983, University Lecturer in Physical Chemistry and Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Corpus Christi College. My only time away from Oxford was as a postdoc at the University of Groningen (1980-82). Over the years I have worked on a number of topics around magnetic resonance and the effects of electron and nuclear spins on chemical reactivity, an area known as Spin Chemistry. These include spin hyperpolarization, protein structure and folding, photosynthetic energy conversion, and NMR methodology. Since about 2005 I have been trying to unravel the biophysical mechanism that allows migratory song birds to detect the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field as an aid to navigation.

I am the author of two Oxford Chemistry Primers on NMR.