Malcolm Chisholm (chemist)

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Malcolm Harold Chisholm (born October 15, 1945 in Bombay ; † November 20, 2015 ) was a British chemist (inorganic and organo-metallic chemistry).

Chisholm studied chemistry at Queen Mary College of the University of London with a bachelor's degree in 1966. In 1969 he received his doctorate under Donald C. Bradley at Queen Mary University of London . From 1972 to 1978 he was an assistant professor at Princeton University , from 1978 associate professor and later professor at Indiana University Bloomington and from 2000 professor at Ohio State University . There he is a Distinguished University Professor .

Among other things, he deals with metal-metal multiple bonds (MM Multiple Bonds) with applications in catalysis and molecular electronics, with metal-organic polymers , liquid crystals with metal ions, and new synthetic routes for polymers from renewable resources.

In 1981 he received an Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of London and in 1986 he was a Clare Hall Fellow at the University of Cambridge . In 1986/87 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1987 he received the Buck Whitney Medal of the American Chemical Society (ACS), in 1979 the Corday Morgan Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry , whose Nyholm Medal he received, and in 1999 the Davy Medal . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society , the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1987/88 he was head of the Inorganic Chemistry Department at ACS. He has been a member of the Leopoldina and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004, and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005 .

He had been married since 1982 and had three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ^ Remembrance - American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In: amacad.org. December 29, 2015, accessed October 14, 2016 .
  3. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Malcolm H. Chisholm at academictree.org, accessed on January 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Malcolm H. Chisholm (with picture) at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on June 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Chisholm, Malcolm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chisholm, Malcolm Harold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist (inorganic and organo-metallic chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2015