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Pettit, Rowland (1927 - 1981)
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Born: 6 February 1927  Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia.  Died: 10 December 1981.
Rowland Pettit was W. T. Doherty Professor in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin from 1980 and Head of the Department of Chemistry. He had been at the University since 1957 after several years studying in the United Kingdom. His initial studies were done at the University of Adelaide where he became interested in polynuclear heterocyclic chemistry. Pettit gained international acclaim when he created the iron tricarbonyl complex of cyclobutadiene. He focused his scientific research on organo-transition metal chemistry from then on.
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1953Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Adelaide
c. 1953 - c. 19551851 Exhibition Scholar at Queen Mary College in London where he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
1957 - 1980Instructor, then Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), USA
1968Southwest Regional Award received from the American Chemical Society
1973 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
1980 - W. T. Doherty Professor in Chemistry at UT-Austin

 
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Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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