:David Weatherburn

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| workplaces = Purdue University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Queensland

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| alma_mater = University of Sydney

| thesis_title = The extraction of quaternary salts from water into aprotic solvents.

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David Charles Weatherburn is an Australian-trained, New Zealand chemistry academic.

Academic career

After a MSc{{cite web |url=http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au:80/record=b1735321~S4 |title=University of Sydney Library /All Locations |publisher=Opac.library.usyd.edu.au:80 |date= |accessdate=10 October 2016}} and PhD{{cite web |url=http://opac.library.usyd.edu.au:80/record=b1735322~S4 |title=University of Sydney Library /All Locations |publisher=Opac.library.usyd.edu.au:80 |date= |accessdate=10 October 2016}} at the University of Sydney in Australia, he did a Postdoc at Purdue University and a brief period at University of Queensland, he joined Victoria University of Wellington in the early 1970s and remained there until his official retirement in 2009.{{Cite web | url=http://www.victoria.ac.nz/scps/about/attachments/ChemHist_second-edition_lowres.pdf | title=Chemistry at Victoria The Wellington University - A Personalized Account of the Hundred Years from 1899 | access-date=2024-06-21 | website=www.victoria.ac.nz}} His specialism was coordination chemistry and spectroscopy, but he had a popular sideline in science shows.

In 2011 he was given a Meritorious Service Award by the Tertiary Education Union.{{cite web |url=http://teu.ac.nz/about/teu-rules-and-constitution/teu-awards/award-recipients-and-alumni/ |title=Award recipients and alumni – TEU |publisher=Teu.ac.nz |date=19 February 2016 |accessdate=10 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009174320/http://teu.ac.nz/about/teu-rules-and-constitution/teu-awards/award-recipients-and-alumni/ |archive-date=9 October 2016 |url-status=dead }}

Selected works

  • Hotzelmann, R., Wieghardt, K., Floerke, U., Haupt, H. J., Weatherburn, D. C., Bonvoisin, J., ... & Girerd, J. J. (1992). Spin exchange coupling in asymmetric heterodinuclear complexes containing the. mu.-oxo-bis (. mu.-acetato) dimetal core. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 114(5), 1681–1696.
  • Bhula, R., Osvath, P., & Weatherburn, D. C. (1988). Complexes of tridentate and pentadentate macrocyclic ligands. Coordination chemistry reviews, 91, 89–213.
  • Weatherburn, D. C., Billo, E. J., Jones, J. P., & Margerum, D. W. (1970). Effect of ring size on the stability of polyamine complexes containing linked consecutive rings. Inorganic Chemistry, 9(6), 1557–1559.
  • Bhula, R., Gainsford, G. J., & Weatherburn, D. C. (1988). A new model for the oxygen-evolving complex in photosynthesis. A trinuclear. mu. 3-oxomanganese (III) complex which contains a. mu.-peroxo group. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 110(22), 7550–7552.

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