John Stuart Anderson FRS,[1] FAA, (9 January 1908 – 25 December 1990) was a British and Australian scientist who was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
[2] Anderson's most important research work was:[2] In addition he carried out practical investigations on the composition of minerals mined in Australia, assisted on one project by Masters candidate Ken McTaggart who went on to be a senior research officer at CSIRO.
Anderson was co-author with Harry Julius Emeléus of the seminal textbook Modern Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry, first published in 1938, which went through numerous editions and translations for over thirty years.
[4] John Stuart Anderson died from cancer in Canberra on Christmas Day, 1990.
In memory of John, the University of Melbourne created the JS Anderson Prize awarded to a promising research student in the area of Chemistry.