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Lesley Yellowlees
Birth Name:Lesley Jane Yellowlees
Birth Place:London, UK
Alma Mater:University of Edinburgh
Thesis Title:Spectro-electrochemical studies on luminescent complexes
Thesis Url:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664125
Thesis Year:1983
Spouse:Peter W. Yellowlees
Children:Sarah, Mark

Lesley Jane Yellowlees, (born 1953) is a British inorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry, Electron transfer reactions and Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy. Yellowlees was also elected as the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2012–14 and was the first woman to hold that role .[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Early life and education

Yellowlees was born in 1953 in London, moving to Edinburgh at the age of 9 and attending St Hilary's Girls' School. Her father worked for Rank Hovis McDougall, and she has two sisters.[9] She completed her higher education at the University of Edinburgh, gaining a BSc in Chemical Physics in 1975, and PhD in Inorganic Electrochemistry in 1982. Yellowlees was the only woman graduate in her undergraduate class, graduating with a first.[10] Continuing on from this Yellowlees began her postdoctoral research in the University of Glasgow in 1983.[11]

Career and research

Lesley Yellowlees' first job was as an administrator in the National Health Service, but after moving to Brisbane, she went into electrochemical research[12] subsequently worked in the University of Queensland. Returning to the University of Edinburgh, to do a PhD on solar cell chemistry, Yellowlees became a demonstrator in 1986, a lecturer in 1989[13] and was appointed Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry in 2005. She was the first woman to be appointed head of chemistry in the university. And is also vice-principal of the university and head of the College of Science and Engineering.

Honours and awards

Yellowlees was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2005[14] and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015.[15] She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012.[16] and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.[17]

To mark the International Year of Chemistry, IUPAC selected 25 women including Yellowlees for the Distinguished Women Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award.[18]

She took over the presidency of the Royal Society of Chemistry on 4 July 2012 for a two-year term (she was succeeded by Professor Dominic Tildesley).

The National Portrait Gallery has two portraits of her.[19] There is also a painting of her by Peter Edwards in Burlington House, the headquarters of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[20]

Yellowlees was appointed MBE in 2005 for services to science and CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to chemistry.[21]

Yellowlees holds Honorary Doctorates from Heriot-Watt University (awarded in 2012),[22] and Edinburgh Napier University (awarded in 2016).[23]

Yellowlees was named the University of Edinburgh Alumnus of the Year 2013 in honour of her research, leadership and her work as an advocate for women in STEM subjects.[24]

In 2014, she was included in the BBC's 100 Women.[25]

Personal life

She is married to Peter W. Yellowlees, a Chartered Accountant,[26] and they have two children.

Notes and References

  1. RSC News, August 2012, pp 12–13 "Lesley Yellowlees"
  2. 10.1021/ic048799t. 15651869. Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of [Pt(II)(diimine)(dithiolate)] Dyes with 3,3'-, 4,4'-, and 5,5'-Disubstituted Bipyridyl: Applications in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Inorganic Chemistry. 44. 2. 242–50. 2005. Geary . E. A. M. . Yellowlees . L. J. . Jack . L. A. . Oswald . I. D. H. . Parsons . S. . Hirata . N. . Durrant . J. R. . Robertson . N. .
  3. 10.1021/bi992150w. 10600101. Potentiometric Analysis of the Flavin Cofactors of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase†. Biochemistry. 38. 50. 16413–8. 1999. Noble . M. A. . Munro . A. W. . Rivers . S. L. . Robledo . L. . Daff . S. N. . Yellowlees . L. J. . Shimizu . T. . Sagami . I. . Guillemette . J. G. . Chapman . S. K. .
  4. 10.1021/om970130p. Synthesis and Characterization of Dinuclear Metal σ-Acetylides and Mononuclear Metal σ-Allenylidenes. Organometallics. 17. 14. 3034. 1998. Colbert . M. C. B. . Lewis . J. . Long . N. J. . Raithby . P. R. . Younus . M. . White . A. J. P. . Williams . D. J. . Payne . N. N. . Yellowlees . L. . Lesley Yellowlees. Beljonne . D. . Chawdhury . N. . Friend . R. H. . Richard Friend.
  5. 10.1021/ic960712j. A New Bridging Ligand for the [Mo2]4+Dimer: Syntheses and X-ray Crystal Structures of the Redox Pair [Mo2{μ-η2-(NPh)2CNHPh}4]0/+. Inorganic Chemistry. 36. 5. 867. 1997. Bailey . P. J. . Bone . S. F. . Mitchell . L. A. . Parsons . S. . Taylor . K. J. . Yellowlees . L. J. .
  6. 10.1021/ja9916456. Electrochemistry of Multicomponent Systems. Redox Series Comprising up to 26 Reversible Reduction Processes in Polynuclear Ruthenium(II) Bipyridine-Type Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 121. 43. 10081. 1999. Marcaccio . M. . Paolucci . F. . Paradisi . C. . Roffia . S. . Fontanesi . C. . Yellowlees . L. J. . Serroni . S. . Campagna . S. . Denti . G. . Balzani . V. .
  7. 10.1039/C1CC15393E. 22116300. Molecular approaches to the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Chemical Communications. 48. 10. 1392–9. 2012. Finn . C. . Schnittger . S. . Yellowlees . L. J. . Love . J. B. . 20.500.11820/b530915d-451c-493c-8251-da2ea2f50912. 14356014. free.
  8. http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/lesley-yellowlees(c32c01e7-b257-45ca-80ea-bf0e972c2515).html University of Edinburgh Research Explorer: Prof Lesley Yellowlees
  9. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/youve-got-to-have-support-because-work-isnt-always-going-to-go-well.17824739 The Herald 2 July 2012
  10. News: Lesley Yellowlees: 'I saw something no one else had seen'. Davis. Nicola. 2013-11-03. The Guardian. 2017-11-24. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  11. PhD . Lesley . Yellowlees . Spectro-electrochemical studies on luminescent complexes . University of Edinburgh . 1983 . . jisc.ac.uk . 13 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181215222244/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/40419054?style=html . 15 December 2018 . dead .
  12. https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20130409142858/http://www.csc.mrc.ac.uk/d/SuffrageContent_web.pdf MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Suffrage Science 2013
  13. http://issuu.com/the-university-of-edinburgh/docs/edit-summer-2011 Edit
  14. Web site: Press release: Appointment at the Palace for our president. rsc.org. 2019-02-03.
  15. Web site: Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Chemistry. Royal Society of. 2016-06-08. rsc.org. en. 2019-02-03.
  16. http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/Governance/RSCCouncil/CouncilMembersBiography/lesley-yellowlees.asp Professor Yellowlees
  17. http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/science-engineering/about/college-office/profiles/lesley-yellowlees www.ed.ac.uk
  18. http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/1310949/Distinguished_Women_ChemistryChemical_Engineering_Award.html www.chemistryviews.org
  19. L. J. Jordanova (2000) Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits, 1660–2000 (Reaktion Books)
  20. http://mag.digitalpc.co.uk/olive/ode/rscnews/LandingPage/LandingPage.aspx?href=UlNDTm9kZS8yMDEyLzA4LzAx&pageno=MTI.&entity=QXIwMTIwMA..&view=ZW50aXR5 mag.digitalpc.co.uk
  21. Web site: New Year Honours 2014 . The Telegraph newspaper.
  22. Web site: Summer Graduations 2012 | News | Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh . 9 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924032041/http://www.hw.ac.uk/news/archive/2012/summer-graduations-2012.htm . 24 September 2015 . dead .
  23. Web site: A laureation for Professor Lesley Yellowlees #EdNapierGrads. 7 July 2016. hazelhall.org.
  24. Web site: Pioneering scientist named Alumnus of the Year. ed.ac.uk. The University of Edinburgh. 29 January 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202113729/http://www.ed.ac.uk/alumni/services/news/news/alumnus-award. 2 February 2014.
  25. Web site: Who are the 100 Women 2014?. BBC. 26 October 2014.
  26. https://archive.today/20130505044355/http://www.merchiston.co.uk/system-pages/footer-menu/governance/governors.aspx Board of Governors, Merchiston School

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