Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham

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Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham , FRS (born February 13, 1928 - † July 17, 2014 ) was an English chemist ( inorganic chemistry ) who mainly worked in the field of transition metals and complex chemistry .

Life

He graduated from the University of London with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1949 ; He then received his PhD in inorganic chemistry (Ph.D.) from the University of Nottingham with CC Addison in 1951 . From 1953 he was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield , before he returned to London in 1956 and taught as a lecturer at Imperial College London and University College London. From 1961 to 1967 he was a professor at the University of Manchester , from 1967 to 1970 at University College London and from 1970 to 1995 at the University of Cambridge . He was one of the founders (Founding Warren 1975 to 2001) of Robinson College , the youngest college in Cambridge.

Example of a metal carbonyl complex from his laboratory, [Os 10 C (CO) 24 ] 2−

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He dealt with inorganic chemistry and was a pioneer in the chemistry of transition metals, in which he founded a new direction of research with complexes with metal-metal bonds. He made syntheses of unusual metal carbonyl complexes, often collaborating with Brian FG Johnson .

From 1986 to 1992 he was chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, was President of the Environmental Industries Commission and from 1993 to 1998 of the UK's National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection).

Memberships and honors

In 1982 he was promoted to a Knight Bachelor and in 1989 he was promoted to Baron Lewis of Newnham , of Newnham in the County of Cambridgeshire. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher and served on several science and technology committees.

In 1961 he received a doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of London and in 1977 in Cambridge (Sc.D.) and had more than ten honorary doctorates, so in 1995 from the University of Bath . In 1973 he was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society . The Royal Society awarded him the Davy Medal in 1985 and the Royal Medal in 2004, and he gave their Bakerian Lecture. He served on the Council of the Royal Society from 1982 to 1984 and 1996 to 1998, and was vice-president in 1983/84. Lewis was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1987), the American Philosophical Society (1994), the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1995), the Polska Akademia Umiejętności (1996) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the holder of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight) and the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (Commander).

1986 to 1988 he was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry , of which he was an Honorary Fellow. In 2010 he received her Longstaff Prize. From 1975 to 1979 he was a member of the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC). In 1970 he received the American Chemical Society Award for Inorganic Chemistry and the 1986 ACS Award for Distinguished Services in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. He received the gold medal of the Apothecaries Society, the Paracelsus Prize and the gold medal of the Swiss Chemical Society, the August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal of the German Chemical Society, the Transition Metal Award, the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize and he was the holder of the Nyholm Lectureship from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Private

In 1951 he married Elfreida Lamb. They became parents of a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • Editor with Ralph G. Wilkins: Modern coordination chemistry: principles and methods, Interscience 1960

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A Black: Who's Who . A. & C. Black, London.
  2. ↑ Peter Edwards, Bernt Krebs, Nicholas Long, Paul Raithby, Dedication to Lord Lewis: the new chemistry of the elements, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A 373, 20140475, February 9, 2015
  3. ^ Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering . Retrieved February 11, 2011.
  4. ^ Honorary Graduates 1989 to present . In: bath.ac.uk . University of Bath . Retrieved February 18, 2012.
  5. ^ Fellows . The Royal Society. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
  6. ↑ Award winners: Davy Medal . Royal Society: Davy Medal . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  7. ↑ Award winners: Royal Medal . Royal Society: Royal Medal . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  8. ^ Longstaff Prize 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

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personal data
SURNAME Lewis, Jack, Baron Lewis of Newnham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1928
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2014