received the BVC Medal and Prize, awarded by the British Vacuum Council. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991, a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2006. In media King appears in the film The Age of Stupid, released in February 2009, talking about Hurricane Katrina. He was portrayed by David Calder in the 2021 BBC television film The Trick. Personal life By his first marriage, which ended in divorce, King has two sons. In 1983, he married, secondly, charity administrator and former head of a commercial law team, Jane Margaret, daughter of general practitioner Hans Eugen Lichtenstein, OBE, of Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales, a Holocaust survivor from a family that owned leather goods shops and an umbrella factory in Berlin. They have a son and a daughter. Books published Sir David King, Gabrielle Walker, The Hot Topic: how to tackle global warming and still keep the lights on, Bloomsbury London 2008 Oliver Inderwildi, Sir David King, Energy, Transport & the Environment, 2012, Springer London New York Heidelberg References Biographical links David King interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 27 November 2009 (video) Sir David King at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford Sir David King at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge BBC's biography of Sir David King David King's article on climate change at www.chinadialogue.net 'Profile: Professor Sir David King' by Alison Benjamin, The Guardian, 27 November 2007. Sir David King: Building a Sustainable Future Lecture presented at the Royal Institute of British Architecture 2007 (Video) British physical chemists Fellows of the Royal Society Masters of Downing College, Cambridge Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry 1939 births Living people Knights Bachelor Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Academics of the University of East Anglia Chief Scientific Advisers to HM Government Place of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the British Science Association Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Global Apollo Programme Academics of the University of Liverpool University of the Witwatersrand alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of University College, Oxford Academics of Imperial College London Chancellors of the University of Liverpool Professors of Physical Chemistry (Cambridge)