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- Neil Bartlett (15 September 1932 – 5 August 2008) was a British chemist who specialized in fluorine and compounds containing fluorine, and became famous for creating the first noble gas compounds. He taught chemistry at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Neil Bartlett (15 September 1932 – 5 August 2008) was a British chemist who specialized in fluorine and compounds containing fluorine, and became famous for creating the first noble gas compounds. He taught chemistry at the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley.
May 23, 2006 · Bartlett's discovery meant that all existing textbooks had to be rewritten. Contents. Disproving Beliefs about the Noble Gases; Early Research Yields a Mysterious Compound; Bartlett’s Simple Experiment with Xenon; Promising Developments from Noble Gas Chemistry; Biography of Neil Bartlett (1932-2008) Research Notes and Further Reading
Professor Bartlett, working at UBC, demonstrated the first reaction of a noble gas by combining xenon with platinum hexafluoride. BIOGRAPHY. Neil Bartlett was born September 15, 1932 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. One of his earliest, formative memories was of a laboratory experiment he conducted in a grammar school class as a twelve ...
On the evening of March 23 1962, Neil Bartlett, working alone in the Chemistry Department at UBC, changed the face of chemistry. Until that day all chemistry textbooks were written with the fixed idea that the Group VIII elements He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn, the Rare Gases, were chemically inert.
Mar 20, 2020 · Neil Bartlett, a renowned emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, whose groundbreaking experiments challenged the prevailing views of the nature of noble gases, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008 at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., from an aortic aneurysm. He was 75.
Sep 10, 2008 · Neil Bartlett, who died on 5 August at the age of 75 from an aortic aneurysm, was one of the foremost chemists of the twentieth century. His discovery in the early 1960s of xenon fluorides, the...
Aug 12, 2008 · BERKELEY – Neil Bartlett, a renowned emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, whose groundbreaking experiments challenged the prevailing views of the nature of noble gases, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Aug. 5, at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, Calif., from an aortic aneurysm. He was 75.
