Dr Nick Pyper studied Natural Sciences at Jesus College Cambridge specialising in chemistry the final year. He obtained a PhD from the University of East Anglia for research into the theory of magnetic resonance and then spent two years at the University of Bristol working on the computational implementation of a novel theory of the electronic structure of small molecules.
This was followed by three and a half years in the Theoretical Chemistry department of Oxford University working with Professor Grant on those relativistic theories of electronic structure needed to understand the behaviour of atoms of high nuclear charge and their chemistry.
He returned to Cambridge and became a Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry. He is a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Dr Pyper has published 120 papers, 30 of which he was the sole author.
Selected Publications:
Pyper, N. C., Naginey, T. C., Whelan, Colm, T., 'Environmental modifications of atomic properties: The ground and 1s2p excited states of compressed helium', J. Chem. Phys., 155, 214301 (2021)
Pyper, N. C., and Whelan, Colm T., 'Confined helium, density dependence of the inelastic electron and photon scattering and the optical oscillator strength', Proc. Roy. Soc., 478, 20220036 (2022)
Pyper, N. C., 'Relativity and the Periodic Table', in Mendeleev and the Periodic Table (compiled by Edwards, Egdell and Frnske), Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., A378, 20190305 (2020)