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4 unusual facts about Inorganic chemistry


Gábor Laurenczy

Since 1985 he works in Lausanne, in the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Lausanne, in 1986 as assistant, from 1987 as first assistant, from 1991 as maître assistant and since 1998 as maître d'enseignement et de recherche (Teaching: general, inorganic and analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis).

He Guoqiang

He graduated from the Inorganic Chemistry Department at the Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering where he had majored in Inorganics.

Rodney H. Banks

In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in inorganic/physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for Nobel laureate and fellow Perkin medal winner Glenn Seaborg on the synthesis and characterization of volatile actinide compounds.

Sulfonucleotide reductase

(Inorganic sulfate occurs abundantly on Earth; terrestrial organisms must use sulfate assimilation to convert it to sulfide.)


Cis effect

In inorganic chemistry, the cis effect is defined as the labilization (making unstable) of CO ligands that are cis to other ligands.

Davar M. Boghaei

Professor Davar M. Boghaei is a professor of inorganic chemistry at the School of Chemistry at Sharif University of Technology in Iran.

Department of Materials, University of Oxford

The Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, England was founded in the 1950s as the Department of Metallurgy, by William Hume-Rothery, who was a reader in Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

Early life of Jan Smuts

His surviving notebooks from this period reveal the range and breadth of his studies: Latin, Greek, German, the Classics, Optical Physics, Inorganic Chemistry and Metallurgy, Organic Chemistry and Agriculture, and Geology - to name but a few.


see also

Alfred Stock Memorial Prize

The award, consisting of a gold medal and money, was created in 1950 in recognition of the pioneering achievements in inorganic chemistry by the German chemist Alfred Stock.

Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry Section A

The editor of Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry Section A is Sarah Ruthven and the Scientific Editors are Frank Berry, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, at the Open University and Eric G. Hope, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leicester.

Edgar Fahs Smith

He translated Victor von Richter's A Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry (3d ed., 1900).

Georgi Bliznakov

In 1949 he joined the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute in Sofia (now the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy) as an assistant where he stayed until moving to the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Sofia University in 1951, becoming full professor and head of department in 1960.

Jacqueline Barton

She went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where she studied inorganic chemistry under the supervision of S.J. Lippard earning her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, Columbia University (1978).

John Macdonald Cameron

In 1870 he gained a Board of Inland Revenue scholarship in Science and studied at the Royal School of Mines winning 1st class prize in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry.

Ralph Raphael

He was Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow from 1957-1972, and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Head of the Department of Chemistry (in reality of Theoretical, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry since Physical Chemistry was a separate department until the early 1980s) at Cambridge University, 1972-88, then Honorary Fellow and Professor Emeritus.

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Norrish rejoined Emmanuel College as a Research Fellow in 1925 and later became the Head of the Physical Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge, occupying part of the Lensfield Road Building with the separate department 'Chemistry' (which encompassed organic, theoretical and inorganic chemistry).

Ulrich Pöschl

Ulrich Pöschl studied chemistry at the Graz University of Technology in Austria and obtained his PhD in 1995 with Karl Hassler at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry with a thesis on "Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Structure of selectively functionalized cyclosilanes ".

Vincenzo Balzani

He taught courses on General and Inorganic Chemistry, Photochemistry, Supramolecular chemistry.

Younan Xia

Dr. Xia received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Harvard University (with Professor George M. Whitesides) in 1996, his M.S. degree in inorganic chemistry from University of Pennsylvania (with the late Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000) in 1993, and his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1987.