弗莱德·巴索洛1920—2007

Fred Basolo

American chemist (1920–2007)

普里斯特利奖章 2001

Fred Basolo was an American inorganic chemist. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943, under Prof. John C. Bailar, Jr. Basolo spent his professional career at Northwestern University. He was a prolific contributor to the fields of coordination chemistry, organometallic, and bioinorganic chemistry, publishing over 400 papers. He supervised many Ph.D. students. With colleague Ralph Pearson, he co-authored the influential monograph "Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions", which illuminated the importance of mechanisms involving coordination compounds. This work, which integrated concepts from ligand field theory and physical organic chemistry, signaled a shift from a highly descriptive nature of coordination chemistry to a more quantitative science.

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出生: 1920 年 2 月 11 日，北城 (伊利诺伊州)
逝世: 2007 年 2 月 27 日，史科基村 (伊利诺伊州)
国籍: 美国
学科: 化学
职业: 化学家、大学教师
母语 / 工作语言: 英语
母校: 伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（哲学博士，1943 年）、南伊利诺伊大学卡本戴尔分校
工作单位: 西北大学（1946—1990）

师承

博士生1

哈里·格雷1935—

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所获奖项（10）

1954古根海姆学者奖
1964American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry
1981詹姆斯·弗莱克·诺里斯杰出教学成就奖
1983Oesper Award
1992乔治·C·皮门特尔化学教育奖
1993美国化学家协会金牌
1995Joseph Chatt Award
1996威拉德·吉布斯奖
2001普里斯特利奖章
—美国文理科学院院士

学会与院士

美国国家科学院美国文理科学院意大利猞猁之眼国家科学院

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Biography

Giovanni Basolo and Catherina Morena Basolo immigrated from the Piedmont area of Italy to Illinois. They had three children there; the youngest was Alfredo Basolo (he began calling himself "Fred" when he entered elementary school). He was educated in the local public schools, then entered Southern Illinois Normal School (now Southern Illinois University, receiving his B.Ed. in 1940. He transferred to University of Illinois for graduate school, receiving his M.Ch in 1942 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1943. He spent the remaining World War II years performing vital research at Rohm & Haas. In Fall 1946 he accepted a position as Instructor of Chemistry at Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. He tutored a first-year chemistry student, Mary Nutely that year. She ended up failing her chemistry class, but they were married on 14 June 1947. They eventually had four children (three daughters and a son, all of whom became educators as adults).

The Basolo family spent 1954-55 in Europe thanks to a Guggenheim Grant. Basolo worked in the laboratory of Danish chemist Jannik Bjerrum; they were also able to tour several countries, including Italy, where they met his parents' relatives.

Basolo advanced steadily through the academic ranks at NU: Instructor (1946–50); Assistant Professor (1950–55); Associated Professor (1955–58); Professor (1958–79); Distinguished Professor (1980-1990). He chaired the Chemistry Department from 1969 to 1972.

In 1997 he and his wife were in an automobile accident. She succumbed to her injuries on 5 February 1997; he had several surgeries to repair his back, but lost the use of his legs. For the last ten years of his life he used a motorized wheelchair for mobility. He died at the Midwest Palliative and Hospice Care Center in Skokie, Illinois of congestive heart failure.