Frederick Hawthorne
Marion Frederick "Fred" Hawthorne (born August 24, 1928 in Fort Scott , Kansas ) is an American chemist, best known for his contributions to boron chemistry.
Hawthorne studied chemical engineering at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, at Pomona College in Claremont, California ( bachelor's degree in chemistry 1949) and was studied by Donald J. Cram at UCLA in 1953 with the thesis The effect of configuration on steric inhibition of resonance in diastereomerically related compounds and the application of Hammett's Rho Sigma treatment to the termolecular benzoxylation of triphenylmethyl chloride doctorate . He then conducted research at Iowa State University before becoming a research chemist with the Rohm and Haas Company (Redstone Arsenal Research Division) in Huntsville, Alabama . There he organized the group for organometallic chemistry and researched borane clusters. During this time he also gave guest lectures at Harvard University . Eventually he became director of the Rohm and Haas Laboratory in Philadelphia. In 1962 he became Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside , and in 1969 Professor at UCLA, where he became University Professor of Chemistry in 1998 .
He has published over 500 papers as an author or co-author, holds 30 patents and had over 200 doctoral students (2010).
In 1997 he was awarded the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences , 2009, the Priestley Medal , in 1973 the price of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the 2003 King Faisal International Prize , in particular for his contributions to radiotherapy with boron (Boron Neutron Capture Therapy). He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1973, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1975, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1980 . In 1963 he was a Sloan Fellow. For 2011 he was awarded the National Medal of Science . He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .
From 1969 he was editor of Inorganic Chemistry for many years .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of M. Frederick Hawthorne at academictree.org, accessed on February 9, 2018.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hawthorne, Frederick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hawthorne, M. Frederick; Hawthorne, Fred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Scott , Kansas |