Kenneth Wade, FRS (13 October 1932 – 16 March 2014) was a British chemist, and professor emeritus at Durham University.
He graduated from Nottingham University (as the first PhD student (1954-1957) of Norman Greenwood) and Cornell University.Wade's Rules, also known as Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory, are a set of electron counting rules to predict the shapes of borane clusters.