Kenneth Wade
{{Short description|British chemist}}
{{use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
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|name = Kenneth Wade {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=small|FRSC|FRS}}
|image = Kenneth_Wade.jpg
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|10|13|df=y}}
|birth_place = Sleaford, Lincolnshire, UK
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|3|16|1932|10|13|df=yes}}
|death_place = Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
|citizenship = United Kingdom
|nationality = English
|field = Electrochemistry
|work_institutions = Durham University
|alma_mater = University of Nottingham
|spouse =
|doctoral_advisor = Norman Greenwood
|doctoral_students =
|known_for = Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory
|prizes = {{no wrap|Ludwig Mond Award {{small|(1999)}} }}
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Kenneth Wade, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRSC|FRS}} (1932–2014) was a British chemist and professor emeritus at Durham University.{{cite web|author=Department of Chemistry |url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/profile/?id=203 |title=Prof. K Wade - Durham University |publisher=Dur.ac.uk |date=2013-09-09 |accessdate=2013-09-15}}
Early life and education
Kenneth Wade was born in Sleaford on 13 October 1932, the second son of Harry Kennington Wade and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Wade. He was educated at Carre's Grammar School,[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-38426 "Wade, Prof. Kenneth"], Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 28 December 2017. and graduated from the University of Nottingham as the first PhD student (1954–1957) of Norman Greenwood,{{cite web | url=http://physics.library.nd.edu/resources/genealogy/chemistry/documents/EmeleusHJ.pdf | title=Harry Julius Emeleus (1903 - 1993) | publisher=University of Notre Dame, Chemistry/Physics Library
| work=Chemistry Academic Genealogy | author= Kenneth Wade| date=May 21, 2009 | accessdate=July 31, 2012}}{{cite web | url=http://www.webofstories.com/people/norman.greenwood | title=Norman Greenwood tells his life story (May 2011) | publisher=Web of Stories | date=25 November 2011 | accessdate=July 30, 2012 | author=Johnson, Brian}} and Cornell University.[https://books.google.com/books?id=9drlYR0YUgAC&pg=PA1756 The International Who's Who 2004], Europa Publications
Career
After spending two years as a post-doctoral student at the University of Cambridge and two further years lecturing successively at Cornell University and Derby College of Technology, in 1961 Wade became a Lecturer at Durham University. In 1971, he was appointed Senior Lecturer and was promoted to Reader in 1977. Between 1983 and 1998, he was Professor of Chemistry at the university and served, between 1986 and 1989, as chairman of its Department of Chemistry.
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.{{cite web|url=http://cnx.org/content/m32846/latest/ |title=Wade's Rules |publisher=Cnx.org |date=2010-01-25 |accessdate=2013-09-15}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RA0AHZMqI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/5_RA0AHZMqI |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Wade's Rules - Periodic Table of Videos |publisher=Periodic Videos |date=2014-04-10 |accessdate=2014-04-10}}{{cbignore}}
Awards
- 1982: Main Group Award, Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 1999: Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 1989: Fellow, Royal Society.{{Cite journal |last=Mingos |first=D. Michael P. |date=2022 |title=Kenneth Wade. 13 October 1932—16 March 2014 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2022.0009 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=73}}
- 1999: Ludwig Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry.
- 2012: Chancellor's Medal, University of Durham.
References
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External links
- [http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/dt/News/KenWade.asp "Collection of articles dedicated to Professor Ken Wade, F.R.S. in celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday"], Dalton Transactions, 3 April 2008
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Academics of Durham University
Category:Alumni of the University of Nottingham