Lesley Yellowlees

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Lesley Yellowlees
FRSE FRSC
Professor Lesley Yellowlees
Born
Lesley Jane Yellowlees

1953 (age 70–71)
London, UK
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
SpousePeter W. Yellowlees[1]
ChildrenSarah, Mark[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisSpectro-electrochemical studies on luminescent complexes (1983)
Yellowlees' voice
Recorded during her Royal Society of Chemistry presidency
Websitewww.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic-staff/professor-lesley-yellowlees

Lesley Jane Yellowlees,

inorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry, Electron transfer reactions and Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy. Yellowlees was also elected as the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2012–14 and was the first woman to hold that role .[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Early life and education

Yellowlees was born in 1953 in

Chemical Physics in 1975, and PhD in Inorganic Electrochemistry in 1982. Yellowlees was the only woman graduate in her undergraduate class, graduating with a first.[13] Continuing on from this Yellowlees began her postdoctoral research in the University of Glasgow in 1983.[14]

Career and research

Lesley Yellowlees' first job was as an administrator in the National Health Service, but after moving to Brisbane, she went into electrochemical research[15] subsequently worked in the University of Queensland. Returning to the University of Edinburgh, to do a PhD on solar cell chemistry, Yellowlees became a demonstrator in 1986, a lecturer in 1989[16] and was appointed Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry in 2005. She was the first woman to be appointed head of chemistry in the university.[15] And is also vice-principal of the university and head of the College of Science and Engineering.

Honours and awards

A portrait of Prof Yellowlees, by Peter Edwards, hangs on the staircase of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Yellowlees was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2005[17] and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015.[18] She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012.[1] and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.[19]

To mark the

IUPAC selected 25 women including Yellowlees for the Distinguished Women Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award.[20]

She took over the presidency of the Royal Society of Chemistry on 4 July 2012 for a two-year term[2] (she was succeeded by Professor Dominic Tildesley).

The National Portrait Gallery has two portraits of her.[21][22] There is also a painting of her by Peter Edwards in Burlington House, the headquarters of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[23]

Yellowlees was appointed MBE in 2005 for services to science and CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to chemistry.[17][24][25]

Yellowlees holds Honorary Doctorates from Heriot-Watt University (awarded in 2012),[26] and Edinburgh Napier University (awarded in 2016).[27]

Yellowlees was named the

STEM subjects.[28]

In 2014, she was included in the BBC's 100 Women.[29]

Personal life

She is married to Peter W. Yellowlees, a

Chartered Accountant,[30] and they have two children.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Professor Yellowlees Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c RSC News, August 2012, pp 12–13 "Lesley Yellowlees"
  3. PMID 15651869
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  4. PMID 10600101
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  5. doi:10.1021/om970130p
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  6. ^ Lesley Yellowlees publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. doi:10.1021/ic960712j
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  8. doi:10.1021/ja9916456
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  9. S2CID 14356014
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  10. YouTube
  11. ^ University of Edinburgh Research Explorer: Prof Lesley Yellowlees
  12. ^ The Herald 2 July 2012 Rebecca McQuilllan "You've got to have support because work is not always going to go well
  13. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  14. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.664125. Archived from the original
    on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  15. ^ a b MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Suffrage Science 2013 9–13 Lesley Yellowlees and Molly Stevens review successes in science while raising families
  16. ^ Edit (University of Edinburgh alumni magazine) June 2011 p 24 "Master and Apprentice"
  17. ^ a b "Press release: Appointment at the Palace for our president". rsc.org. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  18. ^ Chemistry, Royal Society of (8 June 2016). "Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry". rsc.org. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  19. ^ www.ed.ac.uk Archived 11 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine University of Edinburgh "Professor Lesley Yellowlees MBE FRSC FRSE FInstP"
  20. ^ www.chemistryviews.org Distinguished Women Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award
  21. ^ Portraits of Lesley Yellowlees at the National Portrait Gallery, London
  22. ISBN 1861890591
  23. ^ mag.digitalpc.co.uk Archived 15 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Lesley Yellowlees
  24. ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 9.
  25. ^ "New Year Honours 2014". The Telegraph newspaper.
  26. ^ "Summer Graduations 2012 | News | Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  27. ^ "A laureation for Professor Lesley Yellowlees #EdNapierGrads". hazelhall.org. 7 July 2016.
  28. ^ "Pioneering scientist named Alumnus of the Year". ed.ac.uk. The University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  29. ^ "Who are the 100 Women 2014?". BBC. 26 October 2014.
  30. ^ Board of Governors, Merchiston School P. W. Yellowlees
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