| Authorised form of name | Manners; Ian (1961 - 2023); inorganic chemist |
| Dates | 1961 - 2023 |
| Nationality | British |
| Canadian |
| Place of birth | London, England |
| Date of birth | 09/03/1961 |
| Date of death | 03/12/2023 |
| Occupation | Inorganic chemist |
| Research field | Nanostructured materials |
| Chemistry |
| Inorganic chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
University of Bristol, BSc; PhD
Career:
Postdoctoral, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Aachen, Aachen, West Germany (1986-87); Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University (1988-90); Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto (1990); Associate Professor (Tenured) Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto (1994); Full Professor Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto (1995); Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto (2001); Professor and Chair of Inorganic, Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, and Marie Curie Chair, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (2006); Canada 150 Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (2018).
Awards/Medals:
Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences 2000
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award 2011
Memberships:
Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Chemistry
Chemical Institute of Canada |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/05/2011 |
| Age at election | 50 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol |
| PublishedWorks | RCN R81297 |
| OtherInfo | Focused on developing new synthetic procedures for creating metallopolymers and inorganic ring structures. He was particularly interested in using catalysis and self-assembly to achieve this aim, and his work had a number of commercial applications.
Pioneered the use of anionic, thermal and photochemical methods for the ring-opening polymerisation of strained metallocenophane precursor molecules. This work introduced a new class of metallopolymers with unusual properties such as semiconductivity, photoconductivity and etch resistance when exposed to plasmas and ionising radiation. |
| Source | The Royal Society Fellows Directory, Professor Ian Manners FRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/ian-manners-11887/; last accessed: 19/02/2025]
Manners Group, Ian Manners, [URL: https://web.uvic.ca/~imanners/ian/about.html; last accessed: 19/02/2025] |
| Code | NA9741 |
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