{"id":1567,"date":"2014-05-28T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/chemistry\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:56:23","slug":"carleton-chemistry-grad-honoured-chemical-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/2014\/carleton-chemistry-grad-honoured-chemical-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton chemistry grad to be honoured by the Chemical Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton chemistry grad to be honoured by the Chemical Institute\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Professor Peter Legzdins, who received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Carleton University in 1964, is to be honoured next week at the annual conference of the Chemical Institute of Canada&nbsp;being held in&nbsp;Vancouver&nbsp;where they are&nbsp;holding a four-session Symposium in his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After finishing his Chemistry program at Carleton under the direction of Professor Don Wiles, Legzdins went to MIT where he received his PhD. This was followed by a brief post-doctoral period working with Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Wilkinson. Dr. Legzdins then joined the faculty of UBC, where he rapidly rose through the ranks and spent many years as head of the Chemistry department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although now retired, Professor Legzdins continues to supervise graduate students. He is recognized as a world authority on the chemistry of metal nitrosyl compounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Peter Legzdins, who received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Carleton University in 1964, is to be honoured next week at the annual conference of the Chemical Institute of Canada&nbsp;being held in&nbsp;Vancouver&nbsp;where they are&nbsp;holding a four-session Symposium in his name. After finishing his Chemistry program at Carleton under the direction of Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}