Frank Berry was awarded the BSc and PhD degrees from the University of London. He held an SRC/ICI Research Fellowship in the University of Cambridge between 1975 and 1978 before joining The University of Birmingham as Lecturer,Senior Lecturer and Reader.
He was Visiting Professor in the University of Illinois in 1986 and became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of Department in The Open University in 1991. He returned as Honorary Professor of Chemistry in The University of Birmingham in 2007.
Frank was awarded the DSc degree of the University of London in 1988 and was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry in 1984. He is also Honorary Director of The Mossbauer Effect Data Centre
Berry,F.J., Coomer,F.C., Hancock,C., Helgason,O., Moore,E.A., Slater,P.R., Wright A.J., Thomas,M.F.,(2011) Structure and Magnetic Properties of the Cubic Oxide Fluoride BaFeO2F, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 184,1361-1366.
El-Shinawi,H., Marco,J.F., Berry,F.J., Greaves,C.,(2010) LaSrCoFeO5,LaSrCoFeO5F and LaSrCoFeO5.5:New La-Sr-Co-Fe Perovskites, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 20,3253-3259.
Berry,F.J., Bowfield,A.F., Coomer,F.C., Jackson,S.D., Moore,E.A.,Slater,P.R., Thomas,M.F., Wright,A.J., Ren,X., (2009) Fluorination of Perovskite-Related Phases of Composition SrFe1-xSnxO3, Journal of Physics:Condensed Matter, 21, 256001-25600.