teaching also leaves a legacy of "generations of students imbued with a love of science". Honours and awards Freeman was recognised for his professional achievements with Fellowships in the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1968, the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1984, and the Australian Academy of Science in 1984. Freeman's contributions were also recognised by the Australian Government with a Centenary Medal in 2001 for "service to Australian society and science in chemistry" and with his appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2005 for "service to science and scientific research in the field of bio-inorganic chemistry, particularly through the establishment and development of the discipline of crystallography in Australia". Freeman received numerous awards over his long career. In 1980, Freeman received the Burrows Award, the premier award of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the RACI. He was also awarded the 1999 Leighton Memorial Medal which is "the RACI's most prestigious medal and is awarded in recognition of eminent services to chemistry in Australia in the broadest sense." In 2007, he received both the Australian Academy of Science's Craig Medal and an RACI Distinguished Fellowship. Most cited publications The number of citations indicated for each of the following papers are from Web of Science data as at 22 June 2013: X-Ray crystal-structure analysis of plastocyanin at 2.7 Å resolution --- 707 citations --- 642 citations --- 388 citations --- 257 citations --- 209 citations References Australian chemists 1929 births Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Australia 2008 deaths Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Members of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal University of Sydney alumni University of Sydney faculty People educated at Sydney Boys High School 20th-century chemists