Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry 2010 Winner
Ohio State University
Awarded for his seminal contributions to the chemistry of metal-metal bonds and metal alkoxides including the development of pathways from molecular inorganic compounds to materials.
About the Winner
Malcolm Chisholm was born in India, 1945, to Scottish parents and educated in England where he received his B. Sc. and Ph. D. from London University under the direction of Professor D. C. Bradley, FRS.
After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Western Ontario with Professor H. C. Clark, and faculty appointments at Princeton University and Indiana University he moved to The Ohio State University in 2000 where he is currently Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry.
His research interests are in the areas of inorganic, organometallic and materials chemistry. Currently his group is working on the development of single-site metal alkoxide catalysts for the production of polymers from renewable resources and the incorporation of MM quadruply bonded units into conjugated organic pi-systems. The latter have interesting electro-optical properties with applications as LEDs and photovoltaics.
He is author of over 600 publications and the recipient of several awards from the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), a fellow of the Royal Society (London), the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
