Michael F. Lappert

Michael Lappert
FRS
Born(1928-12-31)31 December 1928
Czechoslovakia
Died28 March 2014(2014-03-28) (aged 85)
East Sussex, England, U.K.
EducationNorthern Polytechnic
Scientific career
Fieldsinorganic chemistry
ThesisInteraction of boron trichloride with alcohols and ethers (1951)
William Gerrard
Doctoral students
E.W. Abel
Philip Power

Michael Franz Lappert FRS (31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014) was a Czech-born British inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.

Early life and education

Lappert was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the UK as a Kindertransport refugee. He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.[citation needed]

Career and research

His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.

Awards and honours

Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Leigh, G. Jeffery; Nixon, John F. (2016). "Michael Franz Lappert. 31 December 1928 — 28 March 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 62. London: Royal Society: 277–298. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0014.
  2. ↑ "Professor Michael Franz Lappert FRS". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Prof Michael Lappert, FRS's Biography". Debretts. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "News : News : University of Sussex". Archived from the original on 9 July 2014.
  5. ↑ Michael Lappert, Andrey Protchenko, Philip Power, Alexandra Seeber "Metal Amide Chemistry" Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009. ISBN 0-470-72184-7
  6. ↑ Bourget-Merle, L.; Lappert, M. F.; Severn, J. R. (2002). "The Chemistry of β-Diketiminatometal Complexes". Chem. Rev. 102 (9): 3031–3066. doi:10.1021/cr010424r. PMID 12222981.