Michael Franz Lappert (31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014) was a Czech-born British

inorganic chemist An inorganic compound is typically a chemical compound that lacks carbon–hydrogen bonds⁠that is, a compound that is not an organic compound. The study of inorganic compounds is a subfield of chemistry known as ''inorganic chemistry''. Inorgan ...

. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to

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es.

Early life and education

Lappert was born in

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

and came to the UK as a ''

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'' refugee. He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.

Career and research

His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.

Awards and honours

Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lappert, Michael Franz 1928 births 2014 deaths British inorganic chemists British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society