Richard Nelmes

Richard Nelmes OBE FRS FRSE
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	High-pressure crystallography
Awards	Duddell Medal 2007
Scientific career
Fields	Crystallography
Institutions	University of Edinburgh Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Doctoral advisor	William Cochran
Website	Official website

Richard John Nelmes (born 1943) is a British crystallographer, currently professor emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. As chair of the university's Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC), he studies the behaviour of crystal structures and materials such as ice, methane, and silicon at pressures of up to 1 million times normal atmospheric pressure.^[1]