Michael Mingos

<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
Mingos attended the <a href="/facts/Harvey_Grammar_School/z20Voc6A">Harvey Grammar School</a>, <a href="/facts/King_Edward_VII_and_Queen_Mary_School/CHUtcYFj">King Edward VII School Lytham St Anne's</a>, <a href="/facts/University_of_Manchester_Institute_of_Science_and_Technology/WrPjIp82">University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology</a> (Chemistry Department Prize 1963, <a href="/facts/Bachelor_of_Science/9n3gvDf7">BSc</a> First Class 1965, <a href="/facts/Doctor_of_Science/RCVkMNBH">Hon DSc</a> 2000), and the <a href="/facts/University_of_Sussex/A1DtRNal">University of Sussex</a> (<a href="/facts/Doctor_of_Philosophy/paJumdN8">DPhil</a> 1968,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> and <a href="/facts/Doctor_of_Science/RCVkMNBH">Hon DSc</a> 2001).

<h2 id="career">Career</h2>
Mingos undertook <a href="/facts/Postdoctoral_research/uGIGIC1X">postdoctoral research</a> at <a href="/facts/Northwestern_University/4dunJHBf">Northwestern University</a> (<a href="/facts/Fulbright_Program/94E6ee46">Fulbright Fellow</a> 1968–70) and at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Sussex/A1DtRNal">University of Sussex</a> (<a href="/facts/Imperial_Chemical_Industries/XECoopCt">ICI Fellow</a> 1970–71). From 1971 until 1976 he was a Lecturer at <a href="/facts/Queen_Mary,_University_of_London/j7FHapKf">Queen Mary, University of London</a>. He then moved to the University of Oxford as <a href="/facts/Fellow/DLThQbkq">Fellow and Tutor</a> at <a href="/facts/Keble_College,_Oxford/UI8L0aLr">Keble College</a> and University Lecturer. From 1977 until 1992 he was also Lecturer at <a href="/facts/Pembroke_College,_Oxford/wTyNAh8a">Pembroke College, Oxford</a>.
In 1978, Mingos, <a href="/facts/Stephen_G._Davies/ozW9yEEJ">Stephen G. Davies</a> and <a href="/facts/Malcolm_Green_(chemist)/NM3MbyWo">Malcolm Green</a> compiled a <a href="/facts/Green%E2%80%93Davies%E2%80%93Mingos_rules/1CtcRwbz">set of rules</a> that summarise where <a href="/facts/Addition_to_pi_ligands/1CtcRwbz">nucleophilic additions</a> will occur on pi ligands.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a>
Mingos' 1984 paper on the <a href="/facts/Polyhedral_skeletal_electron_pair_theory/hnVKFea2">polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory</a> develops <a href="/facts/Kenneth_Wade/zC74nmvk">Wade's</a> electron counting rules for predicting the <a href="/facts/Molecular_geometry/7USG5zDn">molecular geometry</a> of <a href="/facts/Cluster_compound/EsuLgxJU">cluster compounds</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>
In 1990 he was appointed <a href="/facts/Reader_(academic_rank)/ydh95ptX">Reader</a> in Inorganic Chemistry and for the academic year 1991/92 he served as <a href="/facts/Assessor_(Oxford)/LdG3a75k">Assessor</a>. From 1992 until 1999 he worked at <a href="/facts/Imperial_College_London/SoXBRyax">Imperial College London</a> as <a href="/facts/Edward_Frankland/LsmhvHnM">Sir Edward Frankland</a> <a href="/facts/British_Petroleum/awvwSJ3x">British Petroleum</a> Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (1992–99) and <a href="/facts/Dean_(education)/DlVqIHhT">Dean</a> of the <a href="/facts/Royal_College_of_Science/PCplqUnf">Royal College of Science</a> (1996–99).
In 1999 Mingos was appointed Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> and at the same time he became a visiting professor at <a href="/facts/Imperial_College_London/SoXBRyax">Imperial College London</a>. In 2000 he received as a <a href="/facts/Title_of_Distinction/8XnKJdKH">Title of Distinction</a> the title of professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Oxford. He was superseded as principal by Professor <a href="/facts/Keith_Gull/Yk3CAs5y">Keith Gull</a> on 1 October 2009.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a>
With <a href="/facts/David_J._Wales/ajRKyqfl">David J. Wales</a> he is the co-author of the textbook Introduction to Cluster Chemistry.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a>

<h2 id="honours-and-awards">Honours and awards</h2>
In 1980, Mingos was award the <a href="/facts/Corday-Morgan_Medal/STMbv9QC">Corday-Morgan Medal</a> and Prize of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry/1fg4xnqR">Royal Society of Chemistry</a>. He was elected a <a href="/facts/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society_elected_in_1992/m1h8F6C1">Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992</a>.

<h2 id="personal-life">Personal life</h2>
Michael Mingos is the son of Vasso Mingos, of <a href="/facts/Athens/mBxlp8X1">Athens</a>, and Rose Enid Billie Mingos née Griffiths.

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Oxford University Gazette, Recognition of Distinction 1999–2000: Successful Candidates, Supplement (2) to Gazette No. 4558, Wednesday, 27 September 2000 <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2000-1/supps/2_4558.htm#14Ref" target="_blank">http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2000-1/supps/2_4558.htm#14Ref</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">University of Oxford Annual Review 1998/99 Archived 5 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/publicaffairs/pubs/annualreview/ar99/heads.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ox.ac.uk/publicaffairs/pubs/annualreview/ar99/heads.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Principal of St Edmund Hall <a href="https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/full-history-hall" target="_blank">https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/full-history-hall</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Michael Mingos's CV <a href="http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/1269350393_Mingos__Mike_updated_CV_Mar_2010.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/1269350393_Mingos__Mike_updated_CV_Mar_2010.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London: Debrett's Peerage, 1999), p. 1362 <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Debrett's People of Today online <a href="http://www.debretts.com/people/people-of-today/people-of-today-search-results.aspx?personId=4163&name=(David)%20Michael%20Patrick+MINGOS" target="_blank">http://www.debretts.com/people/people-of-today/people-of-today-search-results.aspx?personId=4163&name=(David)%20Michael%20Patrick+MINGOS</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Mingos, David Michael Patrick (1968). The preparation and properties of some tertiary phosphine complexes of osmium, iridium, ruthenium, and platinum (PhD thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC 500519525. <a href="https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.465790" target="_blank">https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.465790</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Davies, Stephen G. (1978). "Nucleophilic addition to organotransition metal cations containing unsaturated hydrocarbon ligands". Tetrahedron. 34 (20): 3047–3077. doi:10.1016/0040-4020(78)87001-X. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">Mingos, D. M. P (1984). "Polyhedral Skeletal Electron Pair Approach". Acc. Chem. Res. 17 (9): 311–319. doi:10.1021/ar00105a003. <a href="/wiki/Acc._Chem._Res." target="_blank">/wiki/Acc._Chem._Res.</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">"New Principal for St Edmund Hall", St Edmund Hall <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1998-9/weekly/290499/news/story_4.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1998-9/weekly/290499/news/story_4.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">"Full History of the Hall", St Edmund Hall <a href="https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/full-history-hall" target="_blank">https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/about-college/full-history-hall</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">Mingos, D. M. P.; Wales, D. J. (1990). Introduction to cluster chemistry. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0134743059. <a href="978-0134743059" target="_blank">978-0134743059</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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