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for sale a RARE! "h-index of 72" F. Gordon A. Stone Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1991.
1925 – 6 April 2011), always known as Gordon, was a British chemist who was a prolific and decorated
scholar. He specialized in the synthesis of main He was the
author of more than 900 academic publications resulting in an h-index of 72. Gordon
Stone was born in Exeter, Devon in 1925, the only child of Sidney Charles
Stone, a civil servant, and
Florence Beatrice Stone (née Coles). He received his B.A. in 1948 and
Ph.D. in 1951, both from Christ's College, Cambridge (Cambridge University), England, where he
studied under Harry Julius Emeléus. He married Judith
Hislop (1928-2008) of Sydney, Australia in 1956 with whom he had three sons. After
graduating from Christ's
College, Cambridge, he was a Fulbright
Scholar at the University of Southern California for
two years, before being appointed as an instructor in the Chemistry Department
at Harvard University, and was 1957. He
was the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of 2010, but his most productive period was as
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Bristol University, England (1963–1990), where
he published hundreds of papers over the course of 27 years. In research he
competed with his contemporary Geoffrey Wilkinson. Elected to the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1970,
and to the Royal Society in 1976, he was awarded
the Davy Medal "In
recognition of his many distinguished contributions to organometallic
chemistry, including the discovery that species containing carbon-metal of
metal-metal multiple bonds are versatile reagents for synthesis of cluster
compounds with bonds between different transition elements" in 1989. Among
the many foci of his studies were complexes ligands. At Baylor, he maintained a research program on boron
hydrides, a lifelong interest. In
1988 he chaired the Review Committee commissioned by the British Government
(the now-dissolved University Grants Committee)
to carry out a review of chemistry in UK academia ("University
Chemistry — The Way Forward", "The Stone Report"). His main
recommendation, "that the UGC fund properly not fewer than 30
chemistry departments" and that "at least 20 of these departments
have 30 or more academic staff to compete successfully at the
international level" was
never implemented. His
autobiography Leaving No Stone Unturned, Pathways in Organometallic
Chemistry, was published in 1993. With
Wilkinson, he edited the influential series Comprehensive Organometallic
Chemistry. With Robert West, he edited the series Advances
in Organometallic Chemistry. The Gordon Stone Lecture series at the
University of Bristol is named in his honour. Annual
Stone Symposiums are also held at Baylor University in his honor.