{{Short description|British chemist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Michael Lappert | image = Michael_F._Lappert.png | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|12|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Czechoslovakia | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|03|28|1928|12|31|df=y}}<ref name=rsbm/> | death_place = East Sussex, England, U.K. | alma_mater = Northern Polytechnic | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRS}} | field = inorganic chemistry | thesis_title = Interaction of boron trichloride with alcohols and ethers | thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778900884 | thesis_year = 1951 | doctoral_advisor = William Gerrard | doctoral_students = E.W. Abel<br />Philip Power | website = }}
'''Michael Franz Lappert''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRS}}<ref name=rsbm>{{cite journal|last1=Leigh|first1=G. Jeffery|last2=Nixon|first2=John F.|title=Michael Franz Lappert. 31 December 1928 — 28 March 2014|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|year=2016|volume=62|pages=277–298|publisher=Royal Society|location=London|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2016.0014|doi-access=free}}</ref> (31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/notices-2014/ |title=Professor Michael Franz Lappert FRS |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023065109/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/notices-2014/ |archivedate=23 October 2014 }}</ref> was a Czech-born British inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/l/4994/Michael+Franz.aspx| title= Prof Michael Lappert, FRS's Biography |publisher= Debretts|accessdate = 29 November 2012}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Lappert was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the UK as a ''Kindertransport'' refugee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=24259|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709091713/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=24259|archive-date=9 July 2014|title=News : News : University of Sussex}}</ref> He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
==Career and research== His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.<ref>Michael Lappert, Andrey Protchenko, Philip Power, Alexandra Seeber "Metal Amide Chemistry" Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2009. {{ISBN|0-470-72184-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bourget-Merle, L. |author2=Lappert, M. F. |author3=Severn, J. R. | title = The Chemistry of β-Diketiminatometal Complexes | journal = Chem. Rev. | year = 2002 | volume = 102 |issue=9 | pages = 3031–3066 | doi = 10.1021/cr010424r|pmid=12222981 }}</ref>
==Awards and honours== Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.<ref name=rsbm/>
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