Colin Llewellyn Raston | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) |
| Education | BSc(Hons), PhD, DSc[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Western Australia Griffith University[1] |
| 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– )[1] |
| Awards | Burrows Award, 1994[2] H G Smith Memorial Medal, 1996[1] Green Chemistry Challenge Award, 2002[2] Leighton Memorial Medal, 2006[2] RACI Living Luminary, 2011[2] South Australia Premier's Professorial Research Fellow in Clean Technology, 2013[1] Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2015[3] Officer of the Order of Australia, 2016[4] |
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.[1] In 2015, he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in "for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg".[3] In 2016, Raston was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to science.[4]
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