Robert Morris

Prof. Bob Morris was born in Ottawa in 1952. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1978 and held a NATO postdoctoral position at the AFRC Unit of Nitrogen Fixation, Sussex, U.K., and an NSERC postdoctoral position at the Pennsylvania State University before accepting a position of Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 1980. He is currently Professor of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Chemical Institute of Canada (and active member of the CIC since 1975). He served as Acting Chair, Interim Chair and then Chair of the Chemistry Department from 2008 to 2013. He is the recipient of the following awards and honors: the Rutherford Medal from the RSC, the Alcan Lecture Award from the CIC and the Award for Pure and Applied Inorganic Chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry, Advisory Boards of Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1996-1998; Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1997-2000; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2005; Killam Research Fellow 2015-2017; RSC Inorganic Mechanisms Award 2017, CGCEN Individual Award 2017, Can. J. Chem. Feb. 2021 special issue, 2024 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry. He has had published more than 290 journal articles and 12 book chapters that have received more than 22,000 citations (h 74). Four of his inventions are protected by national and international patents with three others pending. He is a world leader in the field of organometallic chemistry, especially the chemistry of transition metal hydrides and hydrogenation processes.

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