Person Wilkinson; Sir; Geoffrey (1921 - 1996) Wilkinson Geoffrey Sir 1921 - 1996 Male Springside, near Todmorden, West Yorkshire 14/07/1921 19210714 26/09/1996 19960926

Chemistry Education: Won County Scholarship (1932) to Todmorden Secondary School; obtained a Royal Scholarship (1939) for study at Imperial College London (1939-1941) Ph.D Imperial College under HVA Briscoe, the only Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in Briatin. Career; Recruited for nuclear energy project by Paneth in 1942; sent to Canade (1943) and remained in Montreal and later Chalk River Ontario, until 1946. Then joined Glenn T Seaborg's research group at the University of California at Berkeley, becoming the first non-American to be cleared by the US Atomic Energy Commission for work at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Moved (1950) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study metal complexes such as carbonyls and olefin complexes. Accepted Assistant Professorship at Harvard (1951-1955) Appointed to chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College London (1956-1995) which was later re-named the Sir Edward Frankland Chair of Inorganic Chemistry to commemorate Frankland who was at the College from 1865. Here Wilkinson worked almost entirely on the complexes of transition metals, having a major influence on the subject through a number of large-scale publications. Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1973 Honours: Kt 1976 Married (1951) Lise Solver, daughter of Professor Svend Aage Schou Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1981; Davy Medal 1996 Fellow 18/03/1965 43 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 593-606, plate, by M L H Green and W P Griffith AssocMaterial: NCUACS 110/9/02 Papers deposited College Archives, Imperial College London International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 With FA Cotton 'Advanced Inorganic Chemistry' 1962; Editor, 'Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry' 1982 , 9 volumes; 'Supplement to Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry' 1995, 14 volumes 14 Jul 1921 - 26 Sep 1996 NA3636 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/108514271 df58ac0d-6677-42ef-b22b-45cfc443b7fb