Dr Barry A. Murrer
Johnson Matthey Technology Centre, Blounts Court, Sonning Common, Reading RG4 9NH, UK
Barry Murrer became the Director of the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre in Sonning Common in April 2000. He has been with Johnson Matthey since he left university in 1979. Dr Murrer began his career working on homogeneous catalysis. He has worked on a large variety of new applications in the pgms. Dr Murrer worked for several years on anticancer platinum drugs, of which he has extensive knowledge. His current interests are any catalytic use of platinum group metals and their chemistry; this extends into the preparation and properties of any pgms materials.
Dr Murrer is the author of many papers, reviews and patents.
Barry Murrer holds a B.A. and D.Phil. in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
- Email:
- jmpmr@matthey.com
