Michael Franz Lappert FRS[1](31 December 1928 – 28 March 2014)[2] was a Czech-born British inorganic chemist.

Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.

[3] Lappert was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the UK as a Kindertransport refugee.

[citation needed] His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.

[5][6] Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.