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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Brian G.

Fields
  
Cluster chemistry



Born
  
Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson September 11, 1938 (age 85) Northampton, England, UK (
1938-09-11
)

Institutions
  
University of Manchester University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge

Notable awards
  
Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Academia Europaea

Institution
  
University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge

Academic advisors
  
Cyril Clifford Addison

Alma mater
  
University of Nottingham

Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson (born 11 September 1938 in Northampton, England UK) is a British scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was also a Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005.

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Education

Johnson was educated at Northampton Grammar School and the University of Nottingham where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and PhD degrees.

Research

During his career, Johnson has conducted extensive research into many different areas of chemistry, most recently on nano particles. He had a long running research partnership with Jack Lewis, with whom he discovered a number of unusual metal carbonyl clusters.

Awards

Johnson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991. His nomination reads

References

Brian F. G. Johnson Wikipedia