Norman Neill Greenwood (19 January 1925 – 14 November 2012[1][2][3]) was an Australian-British chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds.

[4] Together with Alan Earnshaw, he wrote the textbook Chemistry of the Elements, first published in 1984.

In 1948, he was awarded the Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship to enable him to read for a PhD at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge under the supervision of Harry Julius Emeléus.

[6] Professor William Wynne-Jones, who was the Chairman of the School of Chemistry at Kings College, Durham (which was to become the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963), recruited Greenwood to the first established chair of inorganic chemistry in the country in 1961.

He was a prolific writer and inspirational lecturer on chemical and educational themes, and has held numerous visiting professorships throughout the world.