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British chemist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Franz Lappert FRS[1](31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014)[2] was a Czech-born British inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.[3]
Michael Lappert | |
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Born | |
Died | 28 March 2014 85)[1] East Sussex, England, U.K. | (aged
Alma mater | Northern Polytechnic |
Scientific career | |
Fields | inorganic chemistry |
Thesis | Interaction of boron trichloride with alcohols and ethers (1951) |
Doctoral advisor | William Gerrard |
Doctoral students | E.W. Abel Philip Power |
Lappert was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the UK as a Kindertransport refugee.[4] He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.[citation needed]
His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.[5][6]
Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.[1]
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