# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-basolo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:33:17.949Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-basolo"
name: "Fred Basolo"
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description: "Fred Basolo was an American inorganic chemist. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943, under Prof. John C. Bailar, Jr. Basolo spent his professional career at Northwestern University. He was a prolific contributor to the fields of coordination chemistry, organometallic, and bioinorganic chemistry, publishing over 400 papers. He supervised many Ph.D. students. With colleague Ralph Pearson, he co-authored the influential monograph \"Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions\", which illuminated the importance of mechanisms involving coordination compounds. This work, which integrated concepts from ligand field theory and physical organic chemistry, signaled a shift from a highly descriptive nature of coordination chemistry to a more quantitative science."
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birthDate: "1920-02-11"
deathDate: "2007-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump