Dr. James Trotter
Fellow
Current Employer
The University of British Columbia
Election Year
1976
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Chemistry
Department
Department of Chemistry
Keywords
Crystallography, chemical crystallography, X-ray diffraction, crystal structure analysis
Dr. James Trotter has displayed outstanding originality and productivity in his contribution to the elucidation of the crystal and molecular structure of a wide variety of chemical compounds by X-ray crystallographic methods. His recent researches on large organic molecules, many of which are of great biological importance, have for the first time led to the determination of the complete structures and absolute configurations of such complex molecular systems. Likewise his work on inorganic and organometallic compounds has provided structural information considered to be of the utmost importance in understanding the nature of chemical bonding in these substances.