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British chemist
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Birth:
13 October 1932
Death:
16 March 2014
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Biography
Introduction
Kenneth Wade, FRS (13 October 1932 – 16 March 2014) was a British chemist, and professor emeritus at Durham University.
He graduated from Nottingham University (as the first PhD student (1954-1957) of Norman Greenwood) and Cornell University. Wade's Rules, also known as Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory, are a set of electron counting rules to predict the shapes of borane clusters.
Awards
- 1982 Main Group Award, Royal Society of Chemistry