P. G. Owston

[3] The Owston Islands lie within the region claimed by the United Kingdom (British Antarctic Territory), Argentina (Argentine Antarctica), and Chile (the Antártica commune in Antártica Chilena Province).

[1] Owston's crystallography work included the determination of the structure of Zeise's salt,[5][6] the anion of which is shown at right.

However, the nature of the platinum to ethylene bond in the compound was not understood until the development of the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model in the 1950s.

[8][9][10] The space-filling model from the Owston crystal structure clearly shows that it is an organometallic species as there is direct bonding between the platinum metal centre (in blue) and the two carbon atoms of the ethylene ligand (in black).

In 1964, Owston wrote an article in New Scientist[11] on the use of electron spin resonance spectroscopy in chemistry.