Fausto Calderazzo
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- A. Miolati award (1988)
- L. Sacconi Medal (1998)
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| Born | March 8, 1930 |
| Died | June 1, 2014 (aged 84) |
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Fausto Calderazzo was an Italian inorganic chemist. He gained renown from numerous contributions in inorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry.[1][2] He was born in Parma, on March 8, 1930, where his father served in the Royal Italian army. He died in Pisa on June 1, 2014, at the age of 84.[3]
Fausto Calderazzoe entered the University of Florence, in November 1947. He worked in the laboratory of Luigi Sacconi.[4] After the compulsory military service, Calderazzo joined the research group of Giulio Natta, a future Nobel laureate in Milan. He was a postdoctoral fellow with F. A. Cotton. His first independent position was at the Cyanamid European Research Institute in Geneva (1963-1968). There he was part of a team of future eminent scholars, including Carlo Floriani. For most of his career he was professor at the University of Pisa.
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