| Citation | Distinguished for his experimental investigations of the structure of liquids. In 1966 he carried out the first ever multipattern neutron diffraction experiment with isotopically enriched samples to obtain the partial structure factors for multi-component liquids. This led to new understanding of the relationship between local chemical bonding and macroscopic electrical properties, in liquid alloys and liquid semiconductors. In 1973 he began a major study of the structure of ionic liquids. By systematically exploiting every experimental capability of the neutron diffraction technique, he obtained detailed information about ion-ion correlations, and has thus made a fundamental contribution to understanding of hydration phenomena in aqueous solutions - one of the outstanding problems in condensed matter science which has long attracted the interest of chemists, physicists, electrochemists and mathematicians. The research is now being extended to the dynamics of the ions. Enderby applies imaginatively conceived and rigorously executed experimental methods to critical theoretical problems, thus establishing firm foundations for our knowledge of the liquid state. |