Michael Mingos

Who is Michael Mingos?

David Michael Patrick Mingos FRS was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the University of Oxford. Michael Mingos is the son of Vasso Mingos, of Athens, and Rose Enid Billie Mingos née Griffiths.

He was educated at the Harvey Grammar School, King Edward VII School Lytham St Anne's, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and the University of Sussex.

Mingos undertook postdoctoral research at Northwestern University and at the University of Sussex. From 1971 until 1976 he was a Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. He then moved to the University of Oxford as Fellow and Tutor at Keble College and University Lecturer. From 1977 until 1992 he was also Lecturer at Pembroke.

In 1978, Mingos, Stephen G. Davies and Malcolm Green compiled a set of rules that summarize where nucleophilic additions will occur on pi ligands.

Mingos' 1984 paper on the polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory develops Wade's electron counting rules for predicting the molecular geometry of cluster compounds.