John Stuart Anderson

John Stuart Anderson FRS, FAA, (9 January 1908 – 25 December 1990) was a British and Australian scientist who was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Historical Records of Australian Science, Volume 9 Number 2 pp. 127-149. Published online as Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Fellows, Australian Academy of Science: "John Stuart Anderson 1908-1990". Accessed 1 November 2007.

He was born in Islington, London, the son of a Scottish cabinet-maker, and attended school in the area but learned most of his chemistry at the Islington Public Library. His tertiary education was at the Northern Polytechnic Institute, Imperial College and the Royal College of Science, all in London.

Anderson's most important research work was:

• on the application of Raman spectroscopy to valence problems
• accounting for the composition ranges of non-stoichiometric compounds by combining the ideas of Schottky and Wagner with those of Fowler and Lacher
• his use of field-emission and field ion microscopy to study surface reactions at the atomic level
• his use of the electron microscope to solve problems of reaction mechanisms in solid state chemistry
• on the conditions of equilibrium of 'non-stoichiometric' chemical compounds.Anderson, J. S.: "On the conditions of......
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