Ronald Sydney Nyholm

Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm ( born January 29, 1917 in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; † December 4, 1971 in Cambridge, England) was an Australian chemist and university teacher.

Life

From 1955 until his death in 1971 in a car accident on the outskirts of Cambridge, he worked as a university lecturer at University College London.

1954 was Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm President of the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and one of the oldest in the southern hemisphere.

Creation

Along with Ronald Gillespie, he developed the VSEPR model. ( Valence Shell Electron Pair acronym for repulsion, valence shell electron pair repulsion ). It is therefore also known as Gillespie - Nyholm theory.

Honors

The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded him the 1950 Corday - Morgan Medal.

In 1973, the Chemical Society donated the prices Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry and Nyholm Prize for Education which will be awarded today by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

A new mineral which was discovered in 2009 wearing his honor the name Nyholmit.