Donald Charlton Bradley

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Donald Charlton Bradley CBE FRS , (1924 – 20 December 2014) was a British chemist, who won the Royal Medal in 1998.[1]

Life

He earned a first-class Bachelor’s Degree in 1946, a PhD in 1950 and a DSc in 1959, from Birkbeck, University of London. He was Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Queen Mary, University of London, from 1965 to 1983.[2]

Bradley was recognized for his work on the chemistry of metal-alkoxides and metal-amides, their synthesis, structure and bonding, and for his studies of their conversions to metal-oxides and metal-nitrides. His advances are presently being applied in microelectronics and chemical vapor deposition.[3]

Bradley was a member of the Royal Society and a faculty member of Imperial College. He delivered the 2010 Bakerian Prize Lecture, to the Royal Society (5 March 2010). He died on 20 December 2014.[4][5]

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