Stephen T. Liddle FRSE FRSC is a British professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Manchester.
His degree included a year working as a research scientist for ICI Performance Chemicals at Wilton, Teesside.
Alongside a stint in the Territorial Army, Liddle continued his studies at the university and received his PhD in 2000.
He moved to the University of Manchester in 2015 as Head of Inorganic Chemistry and Co-Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research.
Liddle's research is focused on synthetic inorganic chemistry, particularly making early transition metal, lanthanide, and actinide complexes to explore their structure, bonding, reactivity, and magnetism.
[12] Before the synthesis of this complex, examples of actinide-actinide bonding had been restricted to matrix isolation experiments and fullerene-encapsulated species.
[14] He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy of Science and Letters in 2022.