Brice Bosnich

Education He graduated from University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958, and from Australian National University with a PhD in 1962, where he studied with Francis Patrick Dwyer.

Career and research After leaving ANU, he taught at University College London. He then moved to the University of Toronto, where he remained from 1970 to 1987. Thereafter he became Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at University of Chicago. After his retirement he became a visiting fellow at his alma mater, Australian National University. Other areas of research included hydroacylation catalysis and the development of ligands that mimic the spectroscopic properties of the blue copper proteins.

After his retirement, Bosnich questioned the Royal Society's position on climate change, which is the scientific consensus on the subject.

Awards and honours Bosnich was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2000. His biography reads: