M. L. H. Green
| Malcolm Green | |
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| Born | Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green 16 April 1936 |
| Institutions |
University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London (PhD) |
| Thesis | A study of some transitional metal hydrides and olefin complexes (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Wilkinson |
| Doctoral students | Vernon C. Gibson |
| Known for | Green–Davies–Mingos rules |
| Influences | Alan Davison |
| Notable awards |
Corday-Morgan Prize Davy Medal FRSC Tilden Prize |
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Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green FRS FRSC (born 16 April 1936) is Emeritus Professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Oxford. He has made many contributions to organometallic chemistry.
Born in Eastleigh, Hampshire, he received his BSc degree from Acton Technical College (London University External Regulations) in 1956 and his PhD from Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1959 under the supervision of Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson.
After his PhD, Green undertook a postdoctoral research year with Wilkinson before moving to the University of Cambridge in 1960 as Assistant Lecturer and being elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1961. In 1963 he was appointed a Fellow of Inorganic Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford and a Departmental Demonstrator at the University of Oxford. In 1965 he was made a Lecturer and he was also a Royal Society Senior Research Fellow in Oxford 1979–86. In 1989 he was appointed Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. In 2004 he became an Emeritus Research Professor and continues research with a substantial group. He was a co-founder of the Oxford Catalysts Group plc in 2006.
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