F. Gordon A. Stone, British chemist. died he was , 85

Francis Gordon Albert Stone CBE, FRS, FRSC  was an English chemist who was a prolific and decorated scholar. He specialized in the synthesis of main group and transition metal organometallic compounds. He received his B.A. in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1951, both from Cambridge University, England, where he studied under Harry Julius Emeléus (1903–1993). He was Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Baylor University until 2010, but his most productive period was as head of Inorganic Chemistry at Bristol University (1963-1990), where he published hundreds of papers over the course of 27 years. In research he competed with his contemporary Geoffrey Wilkinson. (May 19, 1925 – April 6, 2011) Among the many foci of his studies were complexes of fluorocarbon, isocyanide, polyolefin, alkylidene and alkylidyne ligands. At Baylor, he maintained a research program on boron hydrides, a lifelong interest.[1] He authored the autobiographic Leaving No Stone Unturned. With Wilkinson, he edited the influential series Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry. With Robert West, he edited the series Advances in Organometallic Chemistry. The Gordon Stone Lecture series at the University of Bristol is named in his honour[2] Awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1970)[3] Fellow of the Royal Society (1976)[4] Chugaev Medal of the Kurnakov Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences) (1978) American Chemical Society’s award in Inorganic Chemistry (1985) Royal Society of Chemistry’s Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship (1988) Royal Society's Davy Medal (1989) Royal Society of Chemistry’s Longstaff Medal (1990) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1990)

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