M. Frederick Hawthorne

Marion Frederick " Fred " Hawthorne ( born August 24, 1928 in Fort Scott, Kansas) is an American chemist, best known for contributions to boron chemistry.

Hawthorne studied chemical engineering at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, at Pomona College in Claremont (California ) ( bachelor's degree in chemistry 1949) and in 1953 received his doctorate at UCLA. After that, he conducted research at Iowa State University before he became a research chemist at Rohm and Haas Company ( Redstone Arsenal Research Division ) in Huntsville (Alabama ). He organized there the group of organometallic chemistry and conducted research on borane cluster. During this time he also held guest lectures at Harvard University. Eventually, he became head of the Laboratory of Rohm and Haas in Philadelphia. In 1962 he became professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, and in 1969 professor at UCLA, where he University Professor of Chemistry in 1998.

He has published as author or co-author of over 500 works, holds 30 patents and had more than 200 doctoral students (2010).

In 1997 he received the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, 2009, the Priestley Medal, in 1973 the price of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the 2003 King Faisal Prize, in particular for his contributions to radiation with Boron ( Boron Neutron Capture Therapy ). Since 1973 he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (the Chemistry Prize he received in 1997 ) and since 1980 the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1963 he was Sloan Fellow. For 2011 him the National Medal of Science was awarded.

From 1969 he was for many years editor of Inorganic Chemistry.