Geoffrey Wilkinson
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Geoffrey Wilkinson Net Worth

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English chemist and educator who was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973 for his pioneering work in metallocenes and other aspects of organometallic chemistry. He was able to discover several new isotopes and deduce the structure of the newly developed synthesized compound, dicyclopentadienyl iron (ferrocene). He also synthesized many other organometallic compounds, and his homogeneous hydrogenation catalyst for alkenes, known as Wilkinson's Catalyst, proved to be of great significance in the field of organic and inorganic chemistry. He worked at the Atomic Energy Project in Canada and taught at Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Imperial College, London. He received several awards, including the Nobel Prize, ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry, Royal Medal, and Davy Medal, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1965 and knighted in 1976.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Chemist
Birth Day July 14, 1921
Birth Place Todmorden, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, British
Age 99 YEARS OLD
Died On 26 September 1996(1996-09-26) (aged 75)\nLondon, England
Birth Sign Leo
Alma mater Imperial College London (PhD)
Known for Homogeneous transition metal catalysis
Awards FRS (1965) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1973) Royal Medal (1981) Ludwig Mond Award (1981) Davy Medal (1996)
Fields Inorganic chemistry
Institutions University of California, Berkeley Harvard University Imperial College London
Thesis Some physico-chemical observations on hydrolysis in the homogeneous vapour phase (1946)
Doctoral advisor Henry Vincent Aird Briscoe
Doctoral students Alan Davison Malcolm Green

💰 Net worth: $7 Million (2024)

Geoffrey Wilkinson, a renowned British chemist, is estimated to have a net worth of $7 million by 2024. Wilkinson, famous for his pioneering work in inorganic chemistry, has made significant contributions to the field. His research on transition metal complexes and their reactions has been instrumental in advancing the understanding of chemical bonding and catalysis. Wilkinson's achievements and expertise have not only earned him international recognition but also substantial financial success. With his wealth and intellectual prowess, Geoffrey Wilkinson continues to inspire new generations of chemists worldwide.

Biography/Timeline

1932

He was educated at the local council primary school and, after winning a County Scholarship in 1932, went to Todmorden Grammar School. His physics Teacher there, Luke Sutcliffe, had also taught Sir John Cockcroft, who received a Nobel Prize for "splitting the atom". In 1939 he obtained a Royal Scholarship for study at Imperial College London, from where he graduated in 1941, with his PhD awarded in 1946.

1942

In 1942 Professor Friedrich Paneth was recruiting young chemists for the nuclear Energy project. Wilkinson joined and was sent out to Canada, where he stayed in Montreal and later Chalk River Laboratories until he could leave in 1946. For the next four years he worked with Professor Glenn T. Seaborg at University of California, Berkeley, mostly on nuclear taxonomy. He then became a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and began to return to his first interest as a student – transition metal complexes of ligands such as carbon monoxide and olefins.

1951

He was at Harvard University from September 1951 until he returned to England in December 1955, with a sabbatical break of nine months in Copenhagen. At Harvard, he still did some nuclear work on excitation functions for protons in cobalt, but had already begun to work on olefin complexes.

1955

In June 1955 he was appointed to the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College London, and from then on worked almost entirely on the complexes of transition metals.

1965

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1965. In 1980 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Bath. Imperial College London named a new hall of residence after him, which opened in October 2009. Wilkinson Hall is named in his honour.

1973

Wilkinson received many awards, including the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for his work on "organometallic compounds" (with Ernst Otto Fischer). He is also well known for writing, with his former doctoral student F. Albert Cotton, "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry", often referred to simply as "Cotton and Wilkinson", one of the standard inorganic chemistry textbooks.

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