21. Archives Hub: WILKINSON, Sir Geoffrey, 1921-1996 Title wilkinson, sir geoffrey, 19211996 Name of Creator wilkinson, sirgeoffrey (1921-1996) Knight chemist Dates of creation 1943-1999 Extent 11 boxes http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0412wilkinson.html

Quick Search Advanced Search Help Home WILKINSON, Sir Geoffrey, 1921-1996 Reference and contact details: GB 0098 B/WILKINSON Title : WILKINSON, Sir Geoffrey, 1921-1996 Name of Creator : Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey (1921-1996) Knight chemist Dates of creation Extent : 11 boxes Held at : Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Level of Description : fonds Language : eng Published by : Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, June 2003 Administrative/Biographical History Scope and Content Biographical material comprising autobiographical writing, shorter biographical writings by others, documentation of the award of the Nobel Prize including an extensive sequence of letters of congratulation, a photographic record which includes an early, 1943, photograph taken in Montreal and photographs of a number of honorary degree and similar occasions not otherwise documented. papers from Wilkinson's time at Imperial College London include correspondence with Imperial College Rectors and senior College administrators, 1978-1989; records relating to the Chemistry Department, 1979-1993, concerning building plans, finance and funding, Wilkinson's post-retirement plans amongst, requests to work in Wilkinson's laboratory, 1984-1993; research records relating to matters of funding, 1977-1993, principally from the Science Research Council/Science and Engineering Research Council; drafts relating to patents, ca 1976-ca 1985. papers relating to the journal Polyhedron, where Wilkinson was chairman of the editorial board 1980-1993; records relating to societies including the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

22. Geoffrey Wilkinson - Autobiography an addendum submitted by the Laureate. To cite this document, always statethe source as shown above. sir geoffrey wilkinson died on September 26, 1996. http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1973/wilkinson-autobio.html

HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL The oldest of three children, I was educated in the local council primary school and after winning a County Scholarship in 1932, went to Todmorden Secondary School. This small school has had an unusual record of scholarly achievement, including two Nobel Laureates within 25 years. I actually had the same Physics teacher as Sir John Cockroft , but physics was never my favourite subject. In 1939 I obtained a Royal Scholarship for study at the Imperial College of Science and Technology where I graduated in 1941. As it was wartime, I was directed to stay on and did some research under the supervision of my predecessor, Professor H.V.A. Briscoe. In late 1942, Professor F.A. Paneth was recruiting young chemists for the nuclear energy project which I joined. I was sent out to Canada in January 1943 and remained in Montreal and later Chalk River until I could leave in 1946. Having been attracted by the prospect of California, I wrote to, and was accepted by Professor Glenn T. Seaborg

23. Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship sir geoffrey wilkinson Lectureship (RSC). This new biennial lectureship in honourof the late sir geoffrey wilkinson has been made possible by endowments http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/AwardsAndFunding/SirGeoffreyWilkinson/in

Contact us Science and Technology Other RSC site areas... About Us RSC Publishing Members Education Library Chemsoc Conferences News Chemistry World Home Science and Technology Awards and funding Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship (RSC) This new biennial lectureship in honour of the late Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson has been made possible by endowments from publishing houses, chemical industry and by his former students and colleagues. The lecture will emphasise work in the general areas of co-ordination, organometallic and catalytic chemistry of the elements. There are no age or nationality restrictions. 2003/04 winner : Professor H B Gray Next closing date for nominations: 31 January 2006 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship Past Winners 1999 - present Downloadable Files Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lectureship Background Information PDF (46k) PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader Contact and Further Information Stanley Langer Manager, Awards and International Team Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA Tel: +44 020 7440 3325 Fax: +44 020 7734 1227 Email: Stanley Langer In this section By Subject A-Z List Winners Other Sources ... Contacts Tools Email this to a friend RSC quicklinks I want information on: Select a subject Analytical Biosciences Education Inorganic Materials Organic Physical Information for: Select a role Authors Librarians Conference Attendees Members Referees School Students Teachers HE Students HE Lecturers I am interested in: Select a product

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25. AIM25: Imperial College Of Science, Technology And Medicine: WILKINSON, Sir Geof Name of creator(s) wilkinson sir geoffrey 19211996 Knight, chemist.CONTEXT. Administrative/Biographical history Born in Springside, Yorkshire on http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=7138&inst_id=3

26. AIM25: Imperial College Of Science, Technology And Medicine: WILKINSON, Sir Geof 3.2 CONTEXT AREA 3.2.1 Name of creator(s) wilkinson sir geoffrey 19211996 Knight, chemist 3.2.2 Administrative/Biographical history Born in http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/frames/fulldesc?inst_id=3&coll_id=7138&full=1&tem

27. RSLP - SIr Geoffrey Wilkinson geoffrey wilkinson was born in Springside, a village close to Todmorden in west of the papers and correspondence of sir geoffrey wilkinson (19211996), http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/rslp-gw.htm

National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists cataloguing project supported by the Research Support Libraries Programme The papers of Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-1996), chemist BIOGRAPHY Early years Student studies and wartime research MIT and Harvard Imperial College London ... Link to online catalogue Back to RSLP Project BIOGRAPHY Early years Geoffrey Wilkinson was born in Springside, a village close to Todmorden in west Yorkshire on 14 July 1921. His introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through his mother's elder brother who had married into a family that owned a small chemical company making Epsom and Glauber's salt for the pharmaceutical industry. He was educated in the local council primary school and after winning a County Scholarship in 1932, went to Todmorden Secondary School which is distinguished by having amongst its former pupils two Nobel Laureates, the first being the physicist, Sir John Cockcroft and the second, Wilkinson. Student studies and wartime research MIT and Harvard Back to RSLP Project Back to the top Imperial College London Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry was published under his editorship and in 1995, the much larger 14-volume supplement set, was a compelling tribute to the pace of advance in the subject that he had led for so many years.

28. Catalogue Of Papers Of G. Wilkinson Title Papers and correspondence of sir geoffrey wilkinson, 19211996. A.2 Polyhedron Symposia-in-print Number 18 ‘sir geoffrey wilkinson as a Research http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/Wilkinson_rslp.htm

NCUACS homepage RSLP page Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey, 1921-1996. Knight, chemist IDENTITY STATEMENT Reference code: GB 0098 B/WILKINSON Repository: College Archives, Imperial College London. Title: Papers and correspondence of Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, 1921-1996. Dates of creation of material: 1943-1999. Extent: 11 boxes + 5 oversize items. Custodial history: The papers were received from the Chemistry Department, Imperial College London and Lady Wilkinson, 1998 and 2001, respectively. Placed in the College Archives, Imperial College London, 2002. Back to the top LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL A.1-A.63 SECTION B IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON B.1-B.36 SECTION C RESEARCH C.1-C.37 SECTION D LECTURES AND PUBLICATIONS D.1-D.56 SECTION E SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS E.1-E.20 SECTION F CORRESPONDENCE F.1-F.61 INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS Back to the top GENERAL INTRODUCTION OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF SIR GEOFFREY WILKINSON Geoffrey Wilkinson was born in Springside, a village close to Todmorden in west Yorkshire on 14 July 1921. His introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through his mother's elder brother who had married into a family that owned a small chemical company making Epsom and Glauber's salt for the pharmaceutical industry.

29. International House Berkeley REMEMBERING sir geoffrey wilkinson. S ir geoffrey wilkinson chatted with IHousealumni at the London reunion in September. From left wilkinson (IH http://ihouse.berkeley.edu/a/timesS97/timesS97.a5.html

REMEMBERING SIR GEOFFREY WILKINSON ir Geoffrey Wilkinson chatted with I-House alumni at the London reunion in September. From left: Wilkinson (IH 1946-'50), Gaby Cohen-Wolff (1947-'48 ), Sir Alfred Sloman (1946-1950 ), and Lady Marie Bergeron Sloman (1947-'48 ). ne of the chief influences in 20th Century chemistry, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, died on September 26, 1996, at the age of 75. Wilkinson, who lived in I-House from 1946-1950, received the 1973 Nobel Prize for his work on organo-metallic compounds. n 1946, Wilkinson came to live in I-House and joined Professor Glenn Seaborg's research group at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. He met his wife, Lise, at I- House. Fellow alumnus, Terje Jacobsen recalls Wilkinson. ow I wish I had been able to attend the International House Reunion in London in September which honored Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson. Geoffrey died only a few weeks later. I first met him 50 years ago at International House. What I recall from that first meeting was his smile, his twinkling eyes and great sense of humour. A wonderful friend, a warm human being. In later years, I had the pleasure of meeting him and his wife, Lise, in London for dinners in Chelsea and even at my home in Norway. eoffrey's distinguished career as a scientist that brought him the Nobel Prize in 1973 was another side to Geoffrey, in a domain where few could follow. But he was such a richly gifted person, so utterly unaffected, his interests so varied, that he made everybody feel at ease in his presence. Life has been greatly diminished by the loss of Geoffrey.

30. Geoffrey Wilkinson - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia sir geoffrey wilkinson was an English chemist. He was born 14 July 1921 in thevillage of Springside, sir geoffrey wilkinson died on 26 September 1996. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Wilkinson

Geoffrey Wilkinson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English chemist He was born 14 July in the village of Springside , near Todmorden in Yorkshire . His father, also a Geoffrey, was a master house painters and decorator; his mother worked in a local cotton mill. One of his uncles, an organist and choirmaster, had married into a family that owned a small chemical company making Epsom and Glauber's salt for the pharmaceutical industry. This is where he first developed an interest in Chemistry. He was educated in the local council primary school and, after winning a County Scholarship in , went to Todmorden Secondary School. There, he had the same Physics teacher as Sir John Cockcroft , who received a Nobel Prize for “splitting the atom”. In he obtained a Royal Scholarship for study at the Imperial College London where he graduated in . In , Professor Friedriech A. Paneth was recruiting young chemists for the nuclear energy project. He joined, and was sent out to Canada and remained in Montreal and later Chalk River until he could leave in . For the next four years he worked with Professor Glenn T. Seaborg

31. Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-1996), Chemist National Portrait Gallery, list of portraits for sir geoffrey wilkinson includingsir geoffrey wilkinson by Liam Woon, http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp06027

32. IC Reporter, Geoffrey Wilkinson 1921 - 1996 the Department of Chemistry mourn the death of sir geoffrey wilkinson, who.Professor sir geoffrey wilkinson, FRS, Nobel Laureate and emeritus professor http://www.imperial.ac.uk/publications/reporterarchive/0032/feat01.htm

Issue 32 8 October - 21 October 1996 STAFF NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE Geoffrey Wilkinson 1921 - 1996 Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, FRS, Nobel Laureate and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at IC died suddenly on 26 September, aged 75. His association with Imperial goes back to 1939 when he entered the College as a Royal Scholar to read chemistry. He was awarded the top first class Honours BSc in 1941 and commenced his PhD studies here. At the early age of 34 he was appointed professor of inorganic chemistry. This was in 1955 when Imperial had the only established chair in inorganic chemistry in Britain. Sir Geoffrey held this professorship (renamed the Sir Edward Frankland chair of inorganic chemistry) until he retired in 1988, when he was appointed emeritus professor. He was provided with a new laboratory funded by Johnson Matthey in which he continued to run a small but lively and creative research group until his death. Sir Geoffrey's scientific work spanned 55 years during which he made outstanding contributions to organometallic chemistry - the study of compounds which contain direct metal-carbon bonds. His interest in organometallic chemistry developed in the early 1950s during his time at Harvard and MIT. The crucial moment of his career came at Harvard when, together with the organic chemist and later Nobel Laureate R.B. Woodward, he recognised the unprecedented molecular structure of the organometallic compound now known as ferrocene.

33. Imperial College London - Nobel Laureates 1973, wilkinson, sir geoffrey FRS, (Joint award) for pioneering work, performedindependently on the chemistry of the organometallic so called sandwich http://www.imperial.ac.uk/P455.htm

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34. Chemistry In Action sir geoffrey wilkinson 14/7/192126/9/1996. sir geoffrey wilkinson, Inorganicchemist extraordinaire, has just died at the age of 75. http://www.ul.ie/~childsp/CinA/Issue49/fam_chem.html

Nobel Chemists Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, Inorganic chemist extraordinaire, has just died at the age of 75. He was known to generations of chemistry undergraduates from his influential textbook Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, written with one his ex-graduate students F. Albert Cotton, and always known just 'Cotton and Wilkinson'. After 34 years and five editions it is still the 'Bible' of Inorganic Chemistry. Geoffrey Wilkinson had finished his sections of the sixth edition just before he died. The first edition of 'Cotton and Wilkinson' was published in 1962 and I can remember as a fresh undergraduate the excitement of waiting for this new, long-awaited, and revolutionary Inorganic textbook. To say it was 'heavy on facts' was an understatement, and it was particularly strong on transition metal and organometallic chemistry, reflecting the main interests of the two authors. Geoffrey Wilkinson was the most towering figure in the renaissance of Inorganic Chemistry after WWII, which took off from the 1950s. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973, jointly with Professor E.O. Fischer from Germany, for their independent work in elucidating the structures and opening up the area of metallocene chemistry. Wilkinson did not make ferrocene, the archetypal metallocene, but he (and independently Fischer) correctly identified its unusual structure (Figure 1) in 1952.

35. MSU Chemistry - Gallery Of Chemists' Photo-Portraits And Mini-Biographies - Indi sir geoffrey wilkinson. 19211996. Portrait 126 sir geoffrey wilkinson.wilkinson shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with EO Fischer for http://poohbah.cem.msu.edu/Portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Wilkinson

36. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Sixth Edition Geoff (later sir geoffrey) wilkinson, the late 1973 Nobel chemistry laureate andsir Edward Frankland Professor of Chemistry at London s Imperial College of http://chemeducator.org/bibs/0004006/00040345.htm

Vol. 4 Iss. 6 The Chemical Educator © 1999 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. ISSN 1430-4171 http://journals.springer-ny.com/chedr S 1430-4171(99) 06345-8 Book Review Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Sixth Edition by F. Albert Cotton, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Carlos A. Murillo, and Manfred Bochmann Reviewed by George B. Kauffman California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740-8034, U.S.A. georgekauffman@csufresno.edu Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Sixth Edition; F. Albert Cotton, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Carlos A. Murillo, and Manfred Bochmann. In the Spring of 1952 a 21-year-old student from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (A.B., Temple University, 1951) enrolled in a first-year graduate course in inorganic chemistry at Harvard University. The young (30-year-old) British assistant professor found it difficult, if not impossible, to find a satisfactory textbook for his course. Among recently published books Nevil Vincent Sidgwick's massive, two-volume The Chemical Elements and Their Compounds (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1950; 1628 pp), although a gold mine of information, was hardly appealing as a text. The only available option was Harry Julius Emeléus and J. S. Anderson's Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry (Van Nostrand: Princeton, NJ, 1938 and 1952), which was not really a text but rather a collection of reviews of interesting new areas. Early in 1952 Therald Moeller's

37. Geoffrey Wilkinson And Rick W. K. Wong I joined Professor sir geoffrey wilkinson’s group at Imperial College in the Professor sir geoffrey wilkinson in a relaxed mood, one morning near his http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~chem/nobel_rick.htm

Geoffrey Wilkinson and Rick W. K. Wong I joined Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson¡¦s group at Imperial College in the summer of 1979 right after I completed my year¡¦s postdoctoral work at UCLA. There were 12 people, 3 Ph.D. students and 9 postdocs, in Wilkinson¡¦s group at that time. The group was truly international with students and postdocs from around the world. I was the only postdoc from the Orient. Working with Professor Wilkinson was indeed an intriguing and rewarding experience. He was very dedicated to research. Every day, he would visit into the laboratory at least twice, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, to discuss research ideas and progress with everyone of his students and postdocs. He up-dated the chemical literature daily. I still clearly remember the first day I reported for duty. When I walked into his office, he was sitting in his chair concentrating on the chemical journals he was reading. For a professor of his stature, this was rather unusual. He was prolific with research ideas. Whenever, he came up with research ideas, he would immediately write them down on index cards and then hand them out to us during his daily tours of the laboratory. Each one of us would collect at least two to three index cards from him everyday.

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39. FECS Millennium Project - Wilkinson wilkinson, geoffrey (sir) Born Todmorden (England), 1921 Died England, 1998.wilkinson. wilkinson received his Ph.D. from the Imperial College (England) http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/enc/FECS/Wilkinson.htm

FECS Millennium Project 100 Distinguished European Chemists 20th Century Wilkinson, Geoffrey (Sir) Born: Todmorden (England), 1921 Died: England, 1998 Wilkinson received his Ph.D. from the Imperial College (England) in 1946. He was working in the USA on nuclear chemistry (1946-1950). Whilst at the Harvard University he grew interested in ferrocene. Wilkinson returned to England in 1956 and while at the Imperial College he made remarkable contributions to organometallic chemistry. His work led to the development of versatile homogeneous catalysts for the hydrogenation of many olefins. In 1973 Wilkinson shared the Nobel Prize with E. O. Fischer Links http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/chemistry/1973b.html http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/wilkinson/ www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1973/index.html http://www.ncl.ox.ac.uk/mom/wilkinson/obituaries.html For further information on this chemist search the RSC's historical chemistry information service provided by the Library and Information Centre Go to 20th Century Chemists About ENC FECS ... Visit chemsoc, the RSC’s chemical science network

40. Wilkinson's Catalyst Professor sir geoffrey wilkinson, FRS, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, died onSeptember 26,1996. His work had a wide effect on inorganic chemistry and started http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/wilkinson/default.html

Wilkinson's Catalyst Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, FRS, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, died on September 26,1996 His work had a wide effect on inorganic chemistry and started the field of organometallic chemistry. One of his chemical discoveries earned his name, Wilkinson's Catalyst. This organometallic compound activates small organic molecules such that the bond-breaking and bond-formation pathways are readily accessible. Wilkinson's Catalyst is a rhodium metal complex with three large phosphine ligands coordinated to the metal centre, Rh(PPh Cl. The catalytic chemistry is illustrated in the following animations Chemscape Chime Chime Commands: [Press mouse to rotate] [Press SHIFT and mouse to zoom] [Press and hold for more Instructions and Options] [ Other Molecules Karl Harrison

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