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Professor F. Gordon A. Stone

Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

Career Highlights

Born: May 19, 1925. Exeter, England.

Education: Cambridge University, Christ's College, 1945-51. First class honours in Part I and in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos. College prize winner. Awarded B.A. (1948), Ph.D. (1952).

Appointments:

1. Baylor University 1990 - present.

Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.

2. University of Bristol 1963 - 1990.

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of Department. Acted as chair of the four Departments of the School of Chemistry for two periods of three years.

3. Queen Mary College (University of London) 1962-1963.

University of London, Reader in Inorganic Chemistry.

4. Harvard University 1954 - 1962.

Instructor and assistant professor.

5. University of Southern California 1952-53.

Fulbright Scholar for postdoctoral studies.

Awards:

1961. Guggenheim Fellowship.

1963. Sc.D. Cambridge University.

1966. Senior Visiting Fellow Australian Academy of Sciences.

1971. Tilden Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

1972. Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Research in Organometallic Chemistry.

1976. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

1978. Chugaev Medal and Diploma of the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the USSR. (now Russian) Academy of Sciences.

1979. Royal Society of Chemistry Medal for Research in Transition Metal Chemistry.

1982. Royal Society of Chemistry Ludwig Mond Lectureship.

1985. American Chemical Society Award for Research in Inorganic Chemistry.

1988. Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship.

1989 The Davy Medal of the Royal Society. This medal is the Society's major award for chemists.

1990 Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal (the Society's major award made every three years for contributions to chemistry).

Appointed CBE by HM Queen Elizabeth on the recommendation of the Prime Minister for services to chemistry in the United Kingdom.

Honorary Degrees:

1992. University of Exeter (UK) Doctor of Science Honoris Causa.

1992. University of Waterloo (Canada) Doctor of Science Honoris Causa.

1993. University of Durham (UK) Doctor of Science Honoris Causa.

1993. University of Salford (UK) Doctor of Science Honoris Causa.

1994. University of Zaragoza (Spain) Doctor Honoris Causa.

Named Lectureships.

1965. Boomer Lecturer at the University of Alberta.

1968. Corn Products Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University.

1970. Firestone Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin.

1971 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Lecturer.

1974. Pacific West Coast Lecturer.

1977. A. R. Gordon Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Toronto.

1980. Frontiers in Chemical Research Lecturer at Texas A & M University and at the

University of Texas at Austin.

1982. Misha Strassberg Visiting Lecturer at the University of Western Australia (Perth).

1983. Reilly Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame.

1984. Waddington Lecturer at the University of Warwick.

1988. G. W. Watt Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.

The James Walker Memorial Lecture, University of Edinburgh.

1991. Distinguished Visiting Lecturer for the Foundation for Research Development, South African Research Council (Pretoria).

1993. University of Alberta (Edmonton), Distinguished University Visitor Lectures.

1994. University of Southern California: Special lecture at the symposium held by USC in celebration of the 90th birthday of the distinguished American chemist Anton Burg.

1995 Texas A & M University: Speaker at the symposium 'Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry', in honor of F. A. Cotton.

1996. E. I. DuPont Distinguished Lecturer, University of Indiana.

Plenary (*) and Section Lectures at Conferences

1964*. VIIIth International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (Vienna).

1965*. IInd International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Madison).

1966. Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Convention (Melbourne).

1971*. Vth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Moscow).

1974. Walter Hieber Symposium on Metal Carbonyl Chemistry (Ettal).

1977. Chemical Institute of Canada and ACS Symposium on Group VIII Metal Chemistry (Montreal).

1980. ACS Symposium on the Reactivity of Metal-Metal Bonds (Las Vegas).

1982. ACS, Chemical Institute of Canada and RSC Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry Towards the 21st Century (Bloomington).

1983*. 29th International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Cologne).

1984*. Vth Federation of European Chemical Societies Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Montpellier).

1985* XIIth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Vienna).

National Meeting of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (Heidelberg).

1986*. VIIth Federation of European Chemical Societies Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Toledo).

1987*. International Conference on Synthetic Chemistry, Chemical Society of the Republic of China (Taipei).

1987*. 53rd Congress of the Israel Chemical Society (Beer-Sheva).

1988. IIIrd Chemical Congress of North America (Toronto).

Principal speaker NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Transition Metal Carbene Complexes, Wilbad-Kreuth, Germany.

1990*. Annual Congress of the Japanese Chemical Society.

1992. Principal speaker NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Transition Metal Carbyne Complexes, Wilbad-Kreuth, Germany.

1993*. Royal Australian Chemical Institute Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry (Armidale, NSW).

Visiting Professorships

|1966 Monash University, Australia. |1967 Princeton University, USA. |

|1968 Pennsylvania State University, USA. |1970 University of Arizona, USA. |

|1972 Carnegie-Mellon University, USA. |1976 Rhodes University, South Africa |

Lecture Tours as part of Exchange Programs between the Royal Society and other National Academies.

|1971 Japan. |1981 Sweden. |

|1978 U.S.S.R. |1984 India. |

|1979 Hungary. |1987 Finland. |

Service to the chemical community at large.

1. Member of the Council of the Royal Society (1986-88) and a Vice-President 1987-88.

2. Royal Society of Chemistry (formerly The Chemical Society).

(i) Member of the Council 1967-70 and 1981-83.

(ii) President of the Dalton (Inorganic Chemistry) Division 1981-83.

(iii) Publications Board 1967.

(iv) Primary Journals Committee 1964-69.

(v) News Publication Committee 1972-76

Chair of the IVth International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (Bristol, 1969).

Initiator and chair of the Ist International Conference on the Platinum Metals (Bristol, 1981). This conference is now held by the RSC every three years.

3. UK Government scientific bodies.

(i) Member of the Chemistry Committee and chair of the Inorganic Chemistry Panel of the Science and Engineering Research Council (1982-85). Also chair of numerous panels considering instrumentation awards, NATO fellowships, funding for central facilities, etc.

(ii) Royal Society representative on the Science Board of the Science and Engineering Research Council (1986-88).

(iii) Chair of the University Grants Committee review of chemistry departments in the UK universities (1988), resulting in the 'Stone' report.

4. Member of the Advisory Council of the Ramsay Memorial Fellowships Trust (1981-90).

Membership of Editorial Boards of Journals

(i) J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Transactions (RSC), (ii) Chemistry in Britain (RSC). (iii) Inorganic Chemistry (ACS), (iv) Organometallics (ACS), (iv) Polyhedron (Pergamon/Elsevier), (v) J. Organometallic Chemistry (Elsevier), (vi) Inorganica Chimica Acta (Elsevier), (vii) Comments on Inorganic Chemistry (Gordon and Breach), (viii) Inorganic Syntheses (international associate member).

Note: with many journals such service involves a three year term.

Published Work.

(i) 670 primary journal articles and 38 review articles and chapters in books have been published as of December 1996.

(ii) Book

'Leaving No Stone Unturned --- Pathways in Organometallic Chemistry', scientific biography commissioned and published by the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1993, pp. 240.

(iii) Edited Books:

(a) Advances in Organometallic Chemistry, Publisher Academic Press, continuing series since 1964, Volumes 1 - 41. (coedited with Robert West, University of Wisconsin).

(b) Organometallic Chemistry, Volumes 1-19. Senior Reporter with E. W. Abel, Specialist Periodical Reports, Royal Society of Chemistry.

(c) Inorganic Polymers, Publisher Academic Press 1962. pp. 630 (co-edited with W. A. G. Graham).

(iv) Encyclopedic work in association with E. W. Abel and G. Wilkinson.

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry I, in 9 volumes published by Pergamon in 1982.

Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II, in 14 volumes published by Pergamon in 1995.

Prof. Stone has some 900 + publications to his credit.

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