Citizenship United States Fields Chemistry | Died April 29, 2014 Name J Lagowski | |
Institutions University of Texas at Austin Alma mater University of Illinois
University of Michigan
Michigan State University
Cambridge University Known for Discovery of the auride ion Books Modern Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry in the Laboratory Education Michigan State University, University of Cambridge | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
Dr J J Lagowski was an American chemist working at The University of Texas at Austin.
Joseph John Lagowski studied chemistry at the University of Illinois and received bachelor's degree in 1952. Later he studied at the University of Michigan to become Master of Science in 1954. In 1957 he finished graduate studies and received Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Lagowski continued studying in the University of Cambridge in England on a Marshall Scholarship with a title of D.Phil received in 1959. He was a professor at The University of Texas from 1959 until his retirement in 2008.
His research dealt with non-aqueous solutions and organometallic pi-complexes. In 1978 he published a paper in which he described the strange spectroscopic and electrochemical behaviour of caesium and gold solution in liquid ammonia - pale yellow instead of blue colour was observed. This confirmed the existence of the auride ion Au−, which is a rare example of a single noble metal anion. He was the sixth editor of the Journal of Chemical Education (1979 - 1996).