Ronald Nyholm
Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm (born January 29, 1917 in Broken Hill , New South Wales , Australia , † December 4, 1971 in Cambridge , England ) was an Australian chemist and professor .
Life
From 1955 until his death in a car accident on the outskirts of Cambridge in 1971 , he worked as a professor at University College London .
In 1954 Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm was President of the Royal Society of New South Wales , the oldest learned society in Australia and one of the oldest in the southern hemisphere.
Create
Together with Ronald Gillespie he developed the VSEPR model . ( Acronym for V alence S bright E Lectron P air R epulsion; valence electron pair repulsion ). It is therefore also called the Gillespie-Nyholm theory .
Honors
The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded him the Corday Morgan Medal in 1950 .
In 1973 the Chemical Society sponsored the Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry and Nyholm Prize for Education, which are awarded today by the Royal Society of Chemistry .
A new mineral that was discovered in 2009 is named Nyholmit in his honor .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ronald Sydney Nyholm 1917-1971 Obituary of the Royal Society
- ^ Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry
- ^ Nyholm Prize for Education
- ↑ P. Elliott, P. Turner, P. Jensen, U. Kolitsch, A. Pring: In "Description and crystal structure of nyholmite, a new mineral related to hureaulite, from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia" Mineralogical Magazine 2009 , 73 , 723-735. doi : 10.1180 / minmag.2009.073.5.723
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| SURNAME | Nyholm, Ronald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nyholm, Ronald Sydney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Broken Hill , New South Wales , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1971 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , England |