File:Geoffrey_Wilkinson_ca._1976.png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
British Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Review of the Literature, 1982-1994 Vol. 14
- Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry Vol. 4 : Groups VIIA
- Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry Vol. 6 : Nickel, Palladium and Platinum
- Complete Organic and Metallic Chemistry
- Cure for Indifference, a Comedy
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1989-04-18
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 55
- Total plays
- 298
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Geoffrey+Wilkinson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Deep learning
· 2015 · cited 74,880x
- ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
· 2017 · cited 32,021x
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,370x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,620x
- The WEKA data mining software
· 2009 · cited 13,089x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1921-07-14 ) 14 July 1921, Todmorden , West Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Died
- 26 September 1996 (1996-09-26) (aged 75), London, England
- Alma mater
- Imperial College London (PhD)
- Known for
- Wilkinson's catalyst
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1973) Royal Medal (1981) Ludwig Mond Award (1981) Davy Medal (1996)
- Fields
- Inorganic chemistry
- Institutions
- Chalk River Laboratories University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University Imperial College London
- Thesis
- Some physico-chemical observations on hydrolysis in the homogeneous vapour phase (1946)
- Doctoral advisor
- Henry Vincent Aird Briscoe
- Other academic advisors
- Glenn T. Seaborg (post doctoral advisor)
- Doctoral students
- F. Albert Cotton Andrew R. Barron Martin A. Bennett Alan Davison Malcolm Green John A. Osborn
- Other notable students
- Richard A. Andersen (postdoc)
- Website
- The Wilkinson Foundation
via Wikipedia infobox
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1973
“for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds”
Shared · 1/2 portion
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geoffrey Wilkinson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.