My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

He was then at the Harvard University from September 1951 until he returned to England in December 1955 with a sabbatical break of nine months in Copenhagen. In June 1955 he was appointed to the chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College London and from then on worked almost entirely on the complexes of transition metals. Albert Cotton "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry" often referred to simply as "Cotton and Wilkinson" one of the standard inorganic chemistry textbooks.

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.