Name Donald Bradley | Role Chemist | |
Donald Charlton Bradley , (7 November 1924 – 20 December 2014) was a British chemist, who won the Royal Medal in 1998.
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.
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.
Bradley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977 and was a faculty member of Imperial College.
He died on 20 December 2014.