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Chemistry International Vol. 21, No. 4 July 1999 40th IUPAC Council Meeting   Free University, Berlin, Germany, 13-14 August 1999 Election of Officers and Bureau Members: Bureau President Vice President Past-President Secretary General Treasurer—Vacancy Bureau—Four Vacancies (Minimum) ..Prof. S. Chandrasekaran ..Prof. Pavel Kratochvil ..Prof. G. Jeffrey Leigh .. Prof. Nicole J. Moreau ..Prof. Oleg M. Nefedov ..Prof. Hitoshi Ohtaki ..Prof. Gerhard M. Schneider ..Prof. Pieter S. Steyn Prof. G . Jeffery Leigh (UK) Prof. G . Jeffery Leigh Prof. Leigh was born on 4 September 1934, and is married with two children. Education and Career: Studied at University of London, King's College, graduating as top student in 1956, and taking his Ph.D. in silicon chemistry three years later. Appointed Lecturer in Chemistry in the Faculty of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1959, where he remained for six years, though one was spent on a sabbatical year as a CIBA fellow with Prof. E. O. Fischer at the University of Munich, Germany. In 1965, he moved to the University of Sussex, to join the Nitrogen Fixation Unit recently established by Prof. Joseph Chatt. As a coordination chemist, he studied the complex chemistry of dinitrogen as a model for the chemistry of nitrogenases. Under his direct supervision, the chemistry group at the unit became the leading laboratory on dinitrogen chemistry, and Prof. Leigh has now published some 250 scientific papers and supervised about 25 doctoral students. He is probably the world's leading authority on dinitrogen complex chemistry. He left the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory as Deputy Director in 1994 to become the first professor of environmental science in the University of Sussex. His work has been widely recognized, not least by Her Majesty the Queen by the award of an OBE for services to science. He has lectured in universities and at conferences all over the world, in English or in French, German, or Spanish when appropriate. Related Professional Activities: Prof. Leigh has been involved in editing and publishing for many years, and he has acted as a deputy editor of the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, and as Chairman of the Editorial Board of Dalton Transactions. He has also served the boards of Inorganic Biochemistry, Inorganica Chimica Acta, and Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Lectures. Within the Royal Society of Chemistry, Prof. Leigh was instrumental in setting up the current system of editorial boards, and was founder chairman of the Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group. He has also been Vice President of the Dalton Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. IUPAC Offices and Assignments: Prof. Leigh has been involved in IUPAC activities for about 25 years, and has accumulated a wealth of experience at all levels of the organization. He joined the Commission for the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry in the late 1960s, and served as associate and titular member before becoming secretary for eight years. His major achievement was editing the 1990 version of Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry. Subsequently, he moved to the Inorganic Division Committee, where he has been Secretary and Vice President for four-year terms and has recently finished a two-year term as President. He is editor of the recently published IUPAC book Principles of Chemical Nomenclature, written jointly with H. A. Favre and W. V. Metanomski, and was the IUPAC representative responsible for arranging the compromise proposal for the names of elements 104-109 that has now been adopted. He also has collected the material to be used in the adjudication over the names of elements 110-112.

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