Ezio Rizzardo
Ezio Rizzardo (born December 26, 1943 in Onigo , Province of Treviso , Italy ) is an Italian-Australian organic chemist, known for the development of the RAFT process and other processes of polymer synthesis .
life and work
Rizzardo studied at the University of New South Wales with a bachelor's degree in Applied Organic Chemistry ( First Class Honors ) in 1966 and received his PhD in 1969 from the University of Sydney with John Pinhey (on photochemistry of organic nitro compounds). As a post-doctoral student he was at Rice University with Richard Turner , at the Research Institute for Medicine and Chemistry in Boston with Derek Barton and at the Australian National University in Canberra with Arthur Birch . At that time he was engaged in the synthesis of biologically active substances. In 1976 he joined the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) in the group of David Henry Solomon and turned to polymer chemistry. From 1992 to 1994 he was founding director of the Cooperative Research Center for Polymer Blends .
He researches methods to control polymer production and developed (with the participation of Graeme Moad , San Thang and others) in 1998 the RAFT process (Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization) of polymer synthesis with free radicals , a process of living polymerization . The first such method of living free radical polymerization, which revolutionized polymer chemistry, was developed by David Solomon's team at CSIRO in the 1970s, in which Rizzardo was involved ( nitroxide- mediated living radical polymerization, NMP) - er holds the corresponding patent (1986) with Solomon and Cacioli.
In 2000 he became a Fellow of the CSIRO, in 2002 he became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and in 2010 of the Royal Society . In 2011 he received the Science Award from the Australian Prime Minister, in 2009 the CSIRO Medal for his life's work and in 2001 the Centenary Medal in Australia.
In 2011 he was ranked 18th in the ranking of the most cited chemists at Thompson Reuters. Since 2014, Thomson Reuters has ranked him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .
In 2005 the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), of which he has been a Fellow since 1981, named a prize for applied chemistry after him. In 2018 he became Companion of the Order of Australia.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 2014 Predictions - Medicine at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); accessed on September 27, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rizzardo, Ezio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Australian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Onigo |