Michael Lappert FRS |
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Born | 31 December 1928 |
Died | 28 March 2014 | (aged 85)
Fields | inorganic chemistry |
Alma mater | Northern Polytechnic |
Thesis | Interaction of boron trichloride with alcohols and ethers (1951) |
Michael Franz Lappert FRS(31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014) was an inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.
He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.
His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.
Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.