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title: "Peter Atkins"
date: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/peter-atkins/"
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# Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins is former Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Lincoln College. His most recent books include On Being: A Scientist’s Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Association.