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]