Peter J T Morris

Peter J. T. Morris is Research Fellow Emeritus at the Science Museum in London and a Honorary Research Associate at UCL. He was formerly Keeper of Research Projects at the Science Museum and oversaw the chemistry collections. He has written widely on the history of chemistry and the chemical industry and is currently revising his thesis on IG Farben for publication. He published Henry Enfield Roscoe in 2024 with Peter Reed and The Matter Factory, a history of the chemical laboratory between 1600 and 2000, in June 2015. Peter Morris was editor of the leading history of chemistry journal, Ambix between 2001 and 2012. He was given the Edelstein Award for excellence in the history of chemistry by the American Chemical Society in 2006 and the Wheeler Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013.