Prof Michael Lappert, FRS

Career: sr lectr N London Poly 1955-59 (asst lectr 1952-53, lectr 1953-55), sr lectr UMIST 1961-64 (lectr 1959-61), prof Univ of Sussex 1969- (reader 1964-69); sr SERC fell Univ of Sussex 1980-85; author of about 800 papers on organometallic and inorganic chemistry; pres Dalton Div RSC 1989-91; RSC Awards: Main Gp Element 1970, Tilden lectr 1972, Organometallic Chemistry 1978, Nyholm lectr 1994, Sir Edward Frankland lectr 1999; Kipping Award ACS 1976, Alfred Stock Meml Prize German Chemical Soc 2008; Hon Doctorate München 1989; FRS 1979, FRSC, MACS

Books and Publications: Metal and Metalloid Amides: Syntheses, Structures and Physical and Chemical Properties (jtly, 1980), Chemistry of Organo-Zirconium and Hafnium Compounds (jtly, 1986), Metal Amides (jtly, 2009)