John Stuart Anderson

John Stuart Anderson FRS ( born January 9, 1908 in London, † 25 December 1990) was a British chemist.

Life

Anderson studied post-school at Imperial College London and subsequently worked as a visiting scientist at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, where his research the chemistry of the so-called " metal -nitrosyl complexes " justified. In 1938 he became a researcher at the University of Melbourne, where he developed a method for the recovery of the element protactinium by a nuclear energy separation process. At the same time, he wrote in 1938 with Harry Émeleus ( 1903-1993 ) is the standard textbook Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry.

His work on metal halides and the partition of minor lanthanoider elements led to an interest in solids, so he focused dealt in later years with the areas of solid-state and high-temperature chemistry. During an activity at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment ( AERE ) at Harwell (Oxford), he dealt with research on uranium oxide. In 1953 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1963 he was appointed the first professor at the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. During his continuing there until 1975 teaching, he explored the effects of extreme temperatures on lanthanides carbides and also developed an electron microscope to determine crystalline structures.

Anderson was awarded the highest British award for scientists in the field of chemistry in recognition of his outstanding achievements in chemistry, in particular for examining the structure of imperfect surfaces and non-stoichiometric materials, the Davy Medal of the Royal Society in 1973. In 1974 he also received the prize of the Royal Society of Solid State Chemistry and 1976 Longstaff Medal of the Chemical Society.

Source

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, page 44