Brian F. G. Johnson
Brian Johnson | |
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| Born | Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson 11 September 1938 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cluster chemistry |
| Institutions | |
| Academic advisors | Cyril Clifford Addison[2][3] |
| Website | www |
Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson (born 11 September 1938[4] in Northampton, England) is a British scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge.[3] He was also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005.[5][1]
Education
[edit]Johnson was educated at Northampton Grammar School[1] and the University of Nottingham where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and PhD degrees.
Research
[edit]During his career, Johnson has conducted extensive research into many different areas of chemistry, most recently on nano particles. He had a long running research partnership with Jack Lewis, with whom he discovered a number of unusual metal carbonyl clusters.[6]
Awards
[edit]Johnson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991. His nomination reads
Distinguished for his contributions to transition metal chemistry. His early work was concerned with the chemistry of nitrosyl complexes and the reactivity of the coordinated nitric oxide group. Subsequent work was concerned with the structure and reactivity of simple organic molecules coordinated to a metal centre, particularly those containing unsaturated carbon centres. The emphasis of his more recent work has been in the field of polynuclear carbonyl complexes particularly in Ruthenium and Osmium. A wide range of new bonding modes for both metal and ligand groups have been identified and the general stereochemical properties of the metal polyhedron have been rationalised in terms of a model depending upon the packing of the coordinated carbonyl groups. This model has been extended to account for the fluxionality observed in these complexes. Johnson has been responsible, in part, for the rapid development of cluster chemistry and the recognition of the difference in the properties of these complexes from mononuclear species.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "JOHNSON, Prof. Brian Frederick Gilbert". Who's Who. Vol. 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Lord Lewis Of Newnham; Johnson, B. F. G. (1997). "Cyril Clifford Addison. 28 November 1913--1 April 1994.: Elected F.R.S. 1970". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 43: 3. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0001.
- ^ a b Harvey, P. D. (2005). "Honouring Brian F. G. Johnson FRS, FRSE, FRSC, F. Acad. Europa". Journal of Cluster Science. 17: 1–3. doi:10.1007/s10876-005-0036-7. S2CID 98476514.
- ^ The Daily Telegraph - Birthdays 11 September 2010
- ^ Midgley, P. A.; Weyland, M.; Thomas, J. M.; Johnson, B. F. G. (2001). "Z-Contrast tomography: A technique in three-dimensional nanostructural analysis based on Rutherford scattering". Chemical Communications (10): 907–908. doi:10.1039/B101819C.
- ^ Jackson, Peter F.; Johnson, Brian F. G.; Lewis, Jack; Nelson, William J. H.; McPartlin, Mary (1982). "The synthesis of the cluster dianion [Os10C(CO)24]2− by pyrolysis. X-Ray structure analysis of [N(PPh3)2]2[Os10C(CO)24] and [Os5C(CO)14H(NC5H4)]". Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (10): 2099. doi:10.1039/DT9820002099.
- ^ "EC/1991/16: Johnson, Brian Frederick Gilbert". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017.
- 1938 births
- Living people
- People from Northampton
- Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
- Masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
- English chemists
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
- Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry
- Alumni of the University of Nottingham
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh