John A. Osborn, Alan Davison and Malcolm Green. Awards and honours Wilkinson received many awards, including the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for his work on "organometallic compounds" (with Ernst Otto Fischer). He is also well known for writing, with his former doctoral student F. Albert Cotton, "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry", often referred to simply as "Cotton and Wilkinson", one of the standard inorganic chemistry textbooks. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1965. In 1980 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Bath. Imperial College London named a new hall of residence after him, which opened in October 2009. Wilkinson Hall is named in his honour. Personal life Wilkinson was married to Lise Schou, a Danish plant physiologist whom he had met at Berkeley. They had two daughters, Anne and Pernille. References External links 1921 births 1996 deaths Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of Imperial College London English chemists British Nobel laureates Inorganic chemists Knights Bachelor Nobel laureates in Chemistry People from Todmorden Royal Medal winners Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences English Nobel laureates