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{{Infobox scientist
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Polly Arnold
| name = Polly Arnold
| birth_name = Polly Louise Arnold
| birth_name = Polly Louise Arnold
| birth_date = July 24, 1972
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|07|24}}<ref name=whoswho/>
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FRSE|FRSC|FRS}}
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FRS|FRSE|FRSC}}
| image = File:The Royal Society of Edinburgh editathon 3 Dec 2013 34 (cropped).JPG
| image = Polly Arnold Royal Society.jpg
| caption = Professor Polly Arnold speaking at a Medical Research Council / Wikimedia UK on 3 December 2013.
| caption = Polly Arnold at the [[Royal Society]] admissions day in London, July 2018
| education = [[Notting Hill and Ealing High School]]<br>[[Westminster School]]
| fields = Chemistry
| fields = [[Chemistry]]<ref name=gs/>
| workplaces = [[University of Nottingham]] [[University of Edinburgh]]
| workplaces = [[University of Nottingham]]<br>[[University of Edinburgh]]<br> [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
| alma_mater = University of Oxford
University of Sussex
| alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]] (BA)<br>[[University of Sussex]] (DPhil)
| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388646
| known_for = Research focused on exploratory synthetic chemistry
| thesis_year = 1997
| thesis_title = Low valent and low co-ordinate complexes of transition metals and lanthanides
| doctoral_advisor = [[Geoffrey Cloke]]<ref name=pphd/>
| awards = {{Plainlist|
| awards = {{Plainlist|
* [[Fulbright scholar]]
* [[Rosalind Franklin Award]] (2012)
* [[Rosalind Franklin Award]] (2012)
* [[Corday-Morgan Prize]] (2012)
* [[Corday-Morgan Prize]] (2012)}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/parnold}}}}
* [[EPSRC]] career fellowship at the University of Edinburgh{{when|date=February 2018}}}}
RSC Geoffrey Wilkinson Award (2018)
}}


'''Polly Louise Arnold''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRSE|FRSC|FRS}} is a Professor of Chemistry at the [[University of Edinburgh]] in the School of Chemistry.<ref name="Dept">{{cite web|title=Professor Polly L Arnold|url=http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/arnold.html|publisher=University of Edinburgh|accessdate=3 December 2013}}</ref> She is the [[Crum Brown]] Chair of [[Chemistry]] at the University of Edinburgh. She currently holds an [[Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council]] (EPSRC) career [[fellow]]ship, also at the University of Edinburgh.
'''Polly Louise Arnold''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRS|FRSE|FRSC}}<ref name=frs>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/polly-arnold-13795/|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|author=Anon|year=2018|location=London|title=Professor Polly Arnold OBE FRS}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]].” --{{Webarchive|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=2016-11-11}}}}</ref> is a Professor of Chemistry at the [[University of Edinburgh]]<ref name="Dept">{{cite web|title=Professor Polly L Arnold|url=http://www.chem.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/arnold.html|publisher=University of Edinburgh|accessdate=3 December 2013}}</ref> where she holds the [[Crum Brown]] Chair of [[Chemistry]] and an [[Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council]] (EPSRC) career [[fellow]]ship.<ref name=epsrc>https://epsrc.ukri.org/about/people/pollyarnold/</ref><ref name=gs>{{Google scholar id}}</ref><ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| surname = Arnold | othernames = Prof. Polly Louise | id = U289559 | year = 2019 | doi = | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}} {{subscription required}}</ref>

==Education==
Arnold was educated at [[Notting Hill and Ealing High School]] and [[Westminster School]].<ref name=whoswho/> She studied chemistry at [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] (BA) and worked with Dermot O’Hare and [[Matthew Rosseinsky]].<ref name=epsrc/> She moved to the [[University of Sussex]] for postgraduate research where her [[Doctor of Philosophy]] degree was supervised by [[Geoffrey Cloke]].<ref name=pphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Sussex|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/42697012?style=html|title=Low valent and low co-ordinate complexes of transition metals and lanthanides|first= Polly Louise|last=Arnold|date=1997|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.388646}}|website=jisc.ac.uk|oclc=53644787}}</ref><ref name=epsrc/>


== Research and career==
== Research and career==
Arnold's research focuses on exploratory synthetic chemistry, particularly in making complexes that exhibit unusual structure-bonding in early transition metal, and [[lanthanide]] and [[Actinide|actinide chemistry]]. Such knowledge underpins the discovery of catalysts and our understanding of the behaviour of nuclear waste.<ref name=Dept />
Arnold's research focuses on exploratory synthetic chemistry, particularly in making complexes that exhibit unusual structure-bonding in early transition metal, and [[lanthanide]] and [[Actinide|actinide chemistry]]. Such knowledge underpins the discovery of catalysts and our understanding of the behaviour of [[nuclear waste]].<ref name="FurnoMorley2004">{{cite journal|last1=Furno|first1=Franck|last2=Morley|first2=Kelly S.|last3=Wong|first3=Ben|last4=Sharp|first4=Barry L.|last5=Arnold|first5=Polly L.|last6=Howdle|first6=Steven M.|last7=Bayston|first7=Roger|last8=Brown|first8=Paul D.|last9=Winship|first9=Peter D.|last10=Reid|first10=Helen J.|title=Silver nanoparticles and polymeric medical devices: a new approach to prevention of infection?|journal=Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy|volume=54|issue=6|year=2004|pages=1019–1024|issn=1460-2091|doi=10.1093/jac/dkh478}} {{free access}}</ref><ref name=Dept />
[[File:DEHHEF.png|thumb|left|Structure of C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub>[U(Ntms<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]<sub>2</sub> from Arnold's lab.<ref>{{cite journal|authors=P. L. Arnold, S.M. Mansell, L. Maron, D. McKay|title=Spontaneous reduction and C–H borylation of arenes mediated by uranium(III) disproportionation|journal=Nature Chemistry|year=2012|volume=4|page=668|doi=10.1038/nchem.1392}}</ref>.]]
[[File:DEHHEF.png|thumb|right|Structure of C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub>[U(Ntms<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]<sub>2</sub> from Arnold's lab.<ref>{{cite journal|authors=P. L. Arnold, S.M. Mansell, L. Maron, D. McKay|title=Spontaneous reduction and C–H borylation of arenes mediated by uranium(III) disproportionation|journal=Nature Chemistry|year=2012|volume=4|page=668|doi=10.1038/nchem.1392}} {{closed access}}</ref>.]]


Arnold was a [[Fulbright Program]] [[postdoctoral]] fellow at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) where she worked with [[Christopher C. Cummins]] before returning to the UK to a lectureship in 1999.<ref name=frs/> Her research is focused on the design and synthesis of highly reactive f-block complexes that can activate inert small molecules such as [[carbon oxide]]s, [[dinitrogen]], and [[hydrocarbon]]s, and that can provide fundamental information on structure and bonding at the bottom of the [[periodic table]].<ref name=frs/>
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== Awards and honours ==


Arnold has given lectures around the world, advised the government and industry, and appears regularly on [[mainstream media]] and [[social media]]<ref name=twitter>{{Twitter}}</ref> to discuss the importance and benefits of diversity in the [[Science, technology, engineering and mathematics|science, technology, engineering, and mathematics]] (STEM) workforce.<ref name=frs/>
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Arnold was awarded The Royal Society [[Rosalind Franklin Award]] in 2012 for her scientific achievements, and her suitability as a role model and proposal to promote women in [[Science, technology, engineering and mathematics|science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A Chemical Imbalance: Prof. Polly Arnold|url=http://chemicalimbalance.co.uk/prof-polly-arnold/|work=A Chemical Imbalance website|publisher=RSE/University of Edinburgh|accessdate=3 December 2013}}</ref> This award was used to fund the creation of the documentary film ''A Chemical Imbalance,'' where she is the executive producer.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Chemical Imbalance|url=https://www.chemicalimbalance.ed.ac.uk/|publisher=RSE/University of Edinburgh|accessdate=11 January 2019}}</ref> That same year, she was also awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's [[Corday-Morgan Prize]] for her "outstanding contributions to the application of organometallic uranium chemistry to small molecule activation".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/CordayMorganPrizes/2012-Winner-Arnold.asp|title=Corday-Morgan Prize 2012 Winner|website=www.rsc.org|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref> In 2012 she was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (FRSE).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/polly-arnold/|title=Professor Polly Louise Arnold OBE, FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-06-15|language=en-GB}}</ref>
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=== Awards and honours ===
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Arnold was awarded [[Rosalind Franklin Award]] in 2012 for her scientific achievements, and her suitability as a role model and proposal to promote women in STEM.<ref name=balance>{{cite web|title=A Chemical Imbalance|first=Polly|last=Arnold|year=2012|website=chemicalimbalance.ed.ac.uk|url=http://chemicalimbalance.co.uk/prof-polly-arnold/|publisher=RSE/University of Edinburgh|accessdate=3 December 2013}}</ref> This award was used to fund the creation of the documentary film ''A Chemical Imbalance,'' where she is the executive producer.<ref name=balance/> That same year, she was also awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's [[Corday-Morgan Prize]] for her "outstanding contributions to the application of organometallic uranium chemistry to small molecule activation".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/CordayMorganPrizes/2012-Winner-Arnold.asp|title=Corday-Morgan Prize 2012 Winner|website=rsc.org|access-date=2018-12-16}}</ref> In 2012 she was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (FRSE).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/polly-arnold/|title=Professor Polly Louise Arnold OBE, FRSE|publisher=[[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]|website=rse.org.uk|access-date=2018-06-15|language=en-GB}}</ref>


She was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2017 Birthday Honours]] for services to chemistry and women in STEM.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B10|date=17 June 2017}}</ref>
She was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[2017 Birthday Honours]] for services to chemistry and women in STEM.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B10|date=17 June 2017}}</ref>


In 2018, she was awarded the [[Royal Society of Chemistry|RSC]] Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson award for her work on transuranic organometallic chemistry, and is so far, the only woman to have been awarded this award since its inception in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/SirGeoffreyWilkinsonAward/2018-Winner.asp|title=RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award 2018 Winner|website=www.rsc.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-13}}</ref> She was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (FRS) in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2018/05/distinguished-scientists-elected-fellows-royal-society-2018/|title=Distinguished scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society |publisher=The Royal Society|date=9 May 2018|accessdate=10 May 2018 |language=}}</ref>
In 2018, she was awarded the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] (RSC) Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson award for her work on transuranic organometallic chemistry, and is so far, the only woman to have been awarded this award since its inception in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/SirGeoffreyWilkinsonAward/2018-Winner.asp|title=RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award 2018 Winner|website=rsc.org|language=en|access-date=2018-05-13}}</ref> She was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (FRS) in 2018.<ref name=frs/>


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Revision as of 09:26, 9 February 2019

Polly Arnold
OBE FRS FRSE FRSC
Polly Arnold at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
Polly Louise Arnold

(1972-07-24) July 24, 1972 (age 52)[3]
EducationNotting Hill and Ealing High School
Westminster School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
University of Sussex (DPhil)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Nottingham
University of Edinburgh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisLow valent and low co-ordinate complexes of transition metals and lanthanides (1997)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Cloke[2]
Websitewww.homepages.ed.ac.uk/parnold

Polly Louise Arnold OBE FRS FRSE FRSC[4] is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh[5] where she holds the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) career fellowship.[6][1][3]

Education

Arnold was educated at Notting Hill and Ealing High School and Westminster School.[3] She studied chemistry at Brasenose College, Oxford (BA) and worked with Dermot O’Hare and Matthew Rosseinsky.[6] She moved to the University of Sussex for postgraduate research where her Doctor of Philosophy degree was supervised by Geoffrey Cloke.[2][6]

Research and career

Arnold's research focuses on exploratory synthetic chemistry, particularly in making complexes that exhibit unusual structure-bonding in early transition metal, and lanthanide and actinide chemistry. Such knowledge underpins the discovery of catalysts and our understanding of the behaviour of nuclear waste.[7][5]

Structure of C6H6[U(Ntms2)2]2 from Arnold's lab.[8].

Arnold was a Fulbright Program postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she worked with Christopher C. Cummins before returning to the UK to a lectureship in 1999.[4] Her research is focused on the design and synthesis of highly reactive f-block complexes that can activate inert small molecules such as carbon oxides, dinitrogen, and hydrocarbons, and that can provide fundamental information on structure and bonding at the bottom of the periodic table.[4]

Arnold has given lectures around the world, advised the government and industry, and appears regularly on mainstream media and social media[9] to discuss the importance and benefits of diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce.[4]

Awards and honours

Arnold was awarded Rosalind Franklin Award in 2012 for her scientific achievements, and her suitability as a role model and proposal to promote women in STEM.[10] This award was used to fund the creation of the documentary film A Chemical Imbalance, where she is the executive producer.[10] That same year, she was also awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Prize for her "outstanding contributions to the application of organometallic uranium chemistry to small molecule activation".[11] In 2012 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[12]

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to chemistry and women in STEM.[13]

In 2018, she was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson award for her work on transuranic organometallic chemistry, and is so far, the only woman to have been awarded this award since its inception in 1999.[14] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Polly Arnold publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Arnold, Polly Louise (1997). Low valent and low co-ordinate complexes of transition metals and lanthanides. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Sussex. OCLC 53644787. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.388646.
  3. ^ a b c Anon (2019). "Arnold, Prof. Polly Louise". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. {{cite encyclopedia}}: More than one of |surname= and |author= specified (help); Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  4. ^ a b c d e Anon (2018). "Professor Polly Arnold OBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  5. ^ a b "Professor Polly L Arnold". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  6. ^ a b c https://epsrc.ukri.org/about/people/pollyarnold/
  7. ^ Furno, Franck; Morley, Kelly S.; Wong, Ben; Sharp, Barry L.; Arnold, Polly L.; Howdle, Steven M.; Bayston, Roger; Brown, Paul D.; Winship, Peter D.; Reid, Helen J. (2004). "Silver nanoparticles and polymeric medical devices: a new approach to prevention of infection?". Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 54 (6): 1019–1024. doi:10.1093/jac/dkh478. ISSN 1460-2091. Free access icon
  8. ^ "Spontaneous reduction and C–H borylation of arenes mediated by uranium(III) disproportionation". Nature Chemistry. 4: 668. 2012. doi:10.1038/nchem.1392. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help) Closed access icon
  9. ^ Polly Arnold on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
  10. ^ a b Arnold, Polly (2012). "A Chemical Imbalance". chemicalimbalance.ed.ac.uk. RSE/University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  11. ^ "Corday-Morgan Prize 2012 Winner". rsc.org. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Professor Polly Louise Arnold OBE, FRSE". rse.org.uk. Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  13. ^ "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B10.
  14. ^ "RSC Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award 2018 Winner". rsc.org. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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