Charles James Matthew Stirling FRS, CChem, FRSC, FLSW (born 1930) is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Sheffield, in England.
Stirling was born on 8 December 1930 to Brigadier Alexander Dickson Stirling and his wife Millicent Stirling[1]
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1967,[2] and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986;[2] and gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1992.[2]
The Royal Society describe him as having "made important contributions to physical organic chemistry through his elucidation of organic reaction mechanisms".[3]
He is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[4]