F. Gordon A. Stone

Francis Gordon Albert Stone (born May 19, 1925 in Exeter , † April 6, 2011 in Waco , Texas ) was a British-American chemist who dealt with inorganic chemistry and later in particular with organometallic chemistry.

Stone studied at Cambridge University (Christ's College) with a bachelor's degree in 1948 and a doctorate in 1951 with Harry Julius Emeléus . As a post-doctoral student , he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California and then an instructor and, from 1957, an assistant professor at Harvard University . From 1963 to 1990 he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bristol and then at Baylor University , where he was until 2010 (Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor in Chemistry).

In 1998 he chaired an official British commission that assessed research and teaching in chemistry at British universities (Stone Report).

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1976 (and its Vice-President in 1987/88), from 1970 to the Royal Society of Chemistry , and in 1990 he became CBE . In 1989 he received the Davy Medal , in 1990 the Longstaff Medal and in 1985 the Inorganic Chemistry Prize of the American Chemical Society.

The Gordon Stone Lecture in Bristol is named after him.

Fonts

• Leaving no stone unturned. Pathways in Organometallic Chemistry , American Chemical Society 1993 (autobiography)
• Interview in Inorganica Chimica Acta, 358, 2005, pp. 1345-1357

Stone published over 750 articles. He was the editor of Advances in Organometallic Chemistry with Robert West and with Geoffrey Wilkinson and EW Abel of Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry .

Web links

• Obituary at the University of Bristol