Norman Neill Greenwood
Born	(1925-01-19)19 January 1925 Melbourne, Australia
Died	14 November 2012(2012-11-14) (aged 87) Leeds, United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Melbourne Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Known for	Boron chemistry Determination ofatomic weights The textbookChemistry of the Elements
Scientific career
Fields	Inorganic chemistry
Institutions	University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Leeds
Doctoral advisor	Harry Julius Emeléus
Notable students	Kenneth Wade

Norman Neill Greenwood (19 January 1925 – 14 November 2012^[1][2][3]) was an Australian-Britishchemist and Emeritus Professor at theUniversity of Leeds.^[4] Together with Alan Earnshaw, he wrote the textbookChemistry of the Elements, first published in 1984.

After attendingUniversity High School, Melbourne (1939–42), Greenwood readChemistry at theUniversity of Melbourne and graduated with aBSc in 1945 and anMSc in 1948. In 1948, he was awarded the Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship to enable him to read for aPhD atSidney Sussex College, Cambridge under the supervision ofHarry Julius Emeléus. He received the PhD in 1951.^[5]

Greenwood was a senior research fellow at theAtomic Energy Research Establishment from 1951 until 1953 when he was appointed alecturer at theUniversity of Nottingham. His first PhD student atNottingham wasKenneth Wade (1954–1957).^[6]

ProfessorWilliam Wynne-Jones, who was the Chairman of the School of Chemistry at Kings College, Durham (which was to become theUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963), recruited Greenwood to the first established chair of inorganic chemistry in the country in 1961.

Greenwood was appointedProfessor and Head of the Department of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at theUniversity of Leeds in 1971, a post which he held until his retirement in 1990 when he was given the titleEmeritus Professor.

His wide-ranging researches in inorganic and structural chemistry have made major advances in the chemistry ofboron hydrides and othermain-group element compounds. He also pioneered the application ofMössbauer spectroscopy to problems in chemistry. He was a prolific writer and inspirational lecturer on chemical and educational themes, and has held numerous visiting professorships throughout the world. He was appointed byNASA as principal investigator in the study oflunar rocks.^[4] He served as chairman of the IUPACCommission on Atomic Weights from 1970 to 1975 and also as president of theIUPAC Inorganic Chemistry Division.^[5]

Greenwood was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987.^[7][8]

• Greenwood, N.N. (1968).Principles of Atomic Orbitals – Monograph for Teachers. Royal Society of Chemistry. p. 48.ISBN 978-0-85404-028-5.
• Greenwood, N. N. (1968).Ionic crystals, lattice defects and nonstoichiometry. London: Butterworths.ISBN 0-408-56001-0.OCLC 32067.
• Greenwood, N. N.; Gibb, T. C. (1971).Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.doi:10.1007/978-94-009-5697-1.ISBN 978-94-009-5699-5.
• Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997).Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.).Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 1340.doi:10.1016/C2009-0-30414-6.ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.
• Greenwood, N.N. (2012).Recollections of a Scientist Volume 1. Boyhood and Youth in Australia. Xlibris Corporation. p. 288.ISBN 978-1-4691-7935-3. (self-published)
• Greenwood, N.N. (2012).Recollections of a Scientist, Volume 2: Expanding Horizons: England and Europe (1948–51). Xlibris Corporation. p. 438.ISBN 978-1-4771-5186-0. (self-published)

Editor: Spectroscopic Properties of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Royal Society of Chemistry, Volume 1 (1968) to Volume 9 (1976)

• Norman Greenwood tells his life story atWeb of Stories

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