Colin Raston
Colin Llewellyn Raston AO FAA (born 1950) is a Professor of Chemistry of Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia and the Premier's Professorial Fellow in Clean Technology. In 2015, he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in "for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg". In 2016, Raston was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to science.
Colin Llewellyn Raston | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) |
| Education | BSc(Hons), PhD, DSc |
| Alma mater | University of Western Australia Griffith University |
| Occupation | academic |
| Known for | green, macrocyclic, and organometallic chemistry |
| Title | Professor of Chemistry, Griffith University (1988–1994) Professor of Chemistry, Monash University (1995–2000) Professor of Chemistry, The University of Leeds (2001–2002) Professor of Chemistry, The University of Western Australia (2003–2012) Professor of Clean Technology, Flinders University (2013– ) |
| Awards | Burrows Award, 1994 H G Smith Memorial Medal, 1996 Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 2002 Leighton Memorial Medal, 2006 RACI Living Luminary, 2011 South Australia Premier's Professorial Research Fellow in Clean Technology, 2013 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015 Officer of the Order of Australia, 2016 |
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