Richard A. Walton

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Chemistry

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

Area:

synthesis, structure and reactivity of transition metal halides, hydrides, carboxylates and phosphine complexes

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http://www.chem.purdue.edu/people/faculty/TMPfaculty.asp?itemID=65

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Bio:

Dick Walton hails from England where he was born in 1939 on the Isle of Wight. He received his B.Sc. (Honors) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southampton, England, in 1961 and 1964, and followed this with a stint as a Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester where he worked with Prof. Jack Lewis (The Lord Lewis) from 1964 to 1965. He spent the following year as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at MIT with Prof. F. Albert Cotton.

His first faculty position was at Reading University, England, from 1966 to 1969, whereupon he returned to the United States to take up an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1970 and to Full Professor in 1974. He served as Associate Head of the Chemistry Department from 1978 to 1983, and he served as Head from April 1993 until July 2001. He was named to the John A. Leighty Distinguished Professorship in 1994.

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