F. Albert Cotton

Frank Albert Cotton was an American chemist. He was the W.T. DohertyWelch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas AampM University. He authored over 1700 scientific articles. Cotton was recognized for his research on the chemistry of the transition metals.

Frank Albert Cotton was born on April 9, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended local public schools before Drexel University and then Temple University. After earning his BA degree from Temple in 1951, Cotton pursued a Ph.D. thesis under the guidance of Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson at Harvard University where he worked on metallocenes. He received his Ph.D in 1955.

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