George M. Sheldrick
British chemist
George M. Sheldrick
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Born |
George Michael Sheldrick
( 1942-11-17 ) 17 November 1942 (age 80)
Huddersfield, England, UK
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Nationality | British and German |
Citizenship | United Kingdom and Germany |
Education | Huddersfield New College |
Alma mater |
Jesus College, Cambridge
University of Cambridge |
Known for | SHELX programs |
Spouse |
Katherine Elizabeth Herford
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m.
1968
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Children | Four |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | University of Göttingen |
Thesis | N.M.R. Studies of Inorganic Hydrides (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | Evelyn Ebsworth |
George Michael Sheldrick , FRS (born 17 November 1942, in Huddersfield , England) is a British chemist who specialises in molecular structure determination. [1] He is one of the most cited workers in the field, having over 280,000 citations as of 2020 and an h-index of 113. [2] He was a professor at the University of Göttingen from 1978 until his retirement in 2011. [3]
Early life
Sheldrick was born on 17 November 1942 in Huddersfield , England. He was educated at Huddersfield New College , then an all-boys grammar school . He completed 9 O-Levels , 6 A-Levels , and 2 S-Levels . At A-Level, he achieved a distinction (the highest grade ) in chemistry, mathematics and physics. [1]
Sheldrick was awarded a Major Scholarship to study Natural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge . He specialised in chemistry in his final year. He graduated in 1963 with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He remained at the University of Cambridge to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Evelyn Ebsworth . He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1966. The topic of his thesis was the investigation of inorganic hydrides using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , and was title " N.M.R. Studies of Inorganic Hydrides ". [1]
Academic career
In 1966, Sheldrick was elected a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge . During his time as an academic at the University of Cambridge , he also taught within the Faculty of Chemistry. He was a demonstrator from 1966 to 1971, and a lecturer from 1971 to 1978. [1]
Sheldrick joined the University of Göttingen in 1978. There, he was first Professor of Inorganic Chemistry , then later Professor of Structural Chemistry . In 2011, he retired from full-time academia and was appointed Niedersachsen Professor (IE Emeritus Professor ). [1]
Work
Sheldrick deals with molecular structure elucidation by X-ray diffraction. He is the lead developer of the SHELX program suite, [4] which is freely available online. [5] In 2011, a graphical user interface for SHELX refinements called ShelXle was released. [6]
Personal life
On 13 July 1968, Sheldrick married Katherine Elizabeth Herford. Together they have four children. [1]
His younger brother, William S. Sheldrick (1945-2015), was a professor of analytical chemistry at Ruhr University in Bochum , Germany until his retirement in 2010. [7]
Honours
- 1970 Meldola Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1978 Corday-Morgan Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 1988 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1999 Carl-Hermann Medal of the German Society for Crystallography
- 2001 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2004 Max Perutz Prize of the European Crystallographic Association
- 2009 Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Ewald Prize of the International Union of Crystallography
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "CV" (PDF) . Retrieved 15 November 2015 .
- ↑ "Google Scholar: George M. Sheldrick" . Retrieved 15 November 2015 .
- ↑ "70th Birthday: George Sheldrick" . ChemistryViews.org . Retrieved 15 November 2015 .
- ↑ Sheldrick, George M. (21 December 2007). "A short history of SHELX" . Acta Crystallographica Section A . 64 (1): 112–122. doi : 10.1107/S0108767307043930 . PMID 18156677 .
- ↑ "The SHELX homepage" . Retrieved 15 November 2015 .
- ↑ Hübschle, Christian B.; Sheldrick, George M.; Dittrich, Birger (12 November 2011). "ShelXle: a Qt graphical user interface for SHELX" . Journal of Applied Crystallography . 44 (6): 1281–1284. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.287.2459 . doi : 10.1107/S0021889811043202 . PMC 3246833 . PMID 22477785 .
- ↑ Seidel, Rüdiger W. (April 2015). "William S. Sheldrick (1945–2015)" . Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie . 641 (5): 750. doi : 10.1002/zaac.201510005 .
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