F. Albert Cotton

Frank Albert Cotton
Frank Albert Cotton
	Cotton in August 2005
Born	April 9, 1930; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	February 20, 2007 (aged 76); College Station, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	Metal-Metal Bonding ; Hapticity and Fluxionality
Awards	William H. Nichols Medal (1975); Linus Pauling Award (1976) ; National Medal of Science (1982); NAS Award in Chemical Sciences (1990); Welch Award in Chemistry (1994) ; Priestley Medal (1998); Wolf Prize (2000)
	Scientific career
Fields	Inorganic Chemistry
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisor	Geoffrey Wilkinson
Doctoral students	Richard H. Holm; Stephen J. Lippard; Charles B. Harris; Tobin J. Marks; Hong-Cai (Joe) Zhou; John J. Wise; Walter G. Klemperer; John P. Fackler Jr.; Richard D. Adams;
Other notable students	Ada Yonath; Kim Renee Dunbar; Qingsheng Wang; Kenneth G. Caulton; Bruce E. Bursten; Akhil Ranjan Chakravarty; Brian F. G. Johnson; Susumu Kitagawa; Fausto Calderazzo; Animesh Chakravorty; Wolfgang Kaim;

Frank Albert Cotton FRS (April 9, 1930 – February 20, 2007) was an American chemist. He was the W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. He authored over 1600 scientific articles. Cotton was recognized for his research on the chemistry of the transition metals.