Boranes and Beyond

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Boranes and Beyond

History and the Man Who Created Them

History of science Inorganic chemistry Organic chemistry Organometallic chemistry

Author: M. Frederick Hawthorne

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Collection: Chemistry and Materials Science

Language: English

Published by: Springer

Published on: 11th April 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781071629086


Tracing the life of a giant in inorganic chemistry and key trends in his science

Boranes and Beyond follows Hawthorne from his mid-American origins to the halls of Harvard and UCLA and back again. It naturally details the accomplishments in his lab. This book is a fascinating mixture of science and autobiography.

Prof. Hawthorne won the Priestley Medal, the highest award of the American Chemical Society, for his pioneering work in elucidating the chemistry of boron. He has chronicled in this book the developments in his lab which ultimately led to this achievement.

Not content to rest on his laurels, after retiring from UCLA Prof. Hawthorne explored the use of boron in biomedicine and directed the International Institute of Nano & Molecular Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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