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Name
  
Kenneth Wade

Role
  
Chemist

Died
  
March 16, 2014


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Education
  
Cornell University, University of Nottingham

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Kenneth Wade, FRS (13 October 1932 – 16 March 2014) was a British chemist, and professor emeritus at Durham University.

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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
  • References

    Kenneth Wade Wikipedia