Ronald Gillespie
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Ronald James Gillespie, CM FRSC FRS[1] (August 21, 1924 – February 26, 2021)[2] was a British chemist specializing in the field of molecular geometry, who arrived in Canada after accepting an offer that included his own laboratory with new equipment, which post-World War II Britain could not provide. He was responsible for establishing inorganic chemistry education in Canada.
He was educated at the University of London obtaining a B.Sc. in 1945, a Ph.D. in 1949 and a D.Sc. in 1957. He was assistant lecturer and then lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at University College London in England from 1950 to 1958.
He moved to McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1958, dying on February 26, 2021, at the age of ninety-six in the nearby town of Dundas, Ontario. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1965, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1977, and made a member of the Order of Canada in 2007.[3]
Gillespie did extensive work on expanding the idea of the
Publications
- Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry: From Lewis to Electron Densities (Topics in Inorganic Chemistry) by Ronald J. Gillespie and Paul L. A. Popelier[5]
- Atoms, Molecules and Reactions: An Introduction to Chemistry by Ronald J. Gillespie
- Chemistry by Ronald J. Gillespie, David Humphreys, Colin Baird, and E. A. Robinson
- Atoms, Molecules and Reactions: An Introduction to Chemistry with D.A. Humphreys, E.A. Robinson and D.R. Eaton, Prentice Hall, 1994
References
- S2CID 258439418.
- ^ "Ronald Gillespie Obituary - Dundas, ON". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
- ^ Order of Canada citation
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- doi:10.1021/ed080p31.