| Malcolm H. Chisholm | |
| Birth Name: | Malcolm Harold Chisholm |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1945 |
| Birth Place: | Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Death Place: | Worthington, Ohio, US |
| Citizenship: | British |
| Fields: | Inorganic Chemistry |
| Education: | Queen Mary College |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Donald Charlton Bradley |
| Academic Advisors: | Howard Charles Clark |
| Known For: | Organometallic complexes with metal-metal bonds |
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Malcolm Harold Chisholm (15 October 1945 - 20 November 2015) was a British inorganic chemist who worked mainly in North America, a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Distinguished University Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University[1] who contributed to the synthesis and structural chemistry of transition metal complexes.[2]
Malcolm Harold Chisholm was born on 15 October 1945 in Bombay, British India, where his parents were based. Six months after his birth, Chisholm's family moved back to the United Kingdom to the family's home in Inverness. At the age of 3, his family then moved to southern England where he obtained his early education. He later went to Queen Mary College and received a BSc in 1966 and a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1969 whilst working under the direction of Donald C. Bradley.
After receiving his PhD, Chisholm went to the University of Western Ontario to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Howard Charles Clark from 1969 to 1972.[3] [4]
He held faculty positions at Princeton University, Indiana University, and Ohio State University. He achieved recognition for developing the chemistry of alkoxy- and amido-supported complexes of dimolybdenum and ditungsten, illustrated by Mo2(NMe2)6.[5]
Chisholm received several awards and honors, among them:
He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1990,[6] a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005,[7] a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2005[2] and a member of the Leopoldina in 2004.[8]