Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson (born 11 September 1938[4] in Northampton, England) is a British scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
[5][1] Johnson was educated at Northampton Grammar School[1] and the University of Nottingham where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and PhD degrees.
During his career, Johnson has conducted extensive research into many different areas of chemistry, most recently on nano particles.
He had a long running research partnership with Jack Lewis, with whom he discovered a number of unusual metal carbonyl clusters.
Johnson has been responsible, in part, for the rapid development of cluster chemistry and the recognition of the difference in the properties of these complexes from mononuclear species.