Talk:F. Albert Cotton

First name
First name is Frank? --HappyCamper 23:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * As in the article title, he used F. Albert on publications; see also citations 2 & 3 here. He was commonly known as "Al", never Frank. Dcrjsr (talk) 14:03, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I dont know, but my guess is that it comes from Wener's time - check with Beestra's in the nomenclature area. I just found that its Frank Albert.--Smokefoot 23:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you thuogh for the reminder that it is dopey to tell readers that someone is influential when that attribute should be evident (or not!) from what they did - excellent point.--Smokefoot 23:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * :I was a bit worried afterwards that I might have sounded too overbearing. I'm glad to hear it came across positively :-) On another note, do you know whether the naming of "fac" and "mer" isomers originated from Cotton as well, or was it another reseracher? --HappyCamper 23:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Dead Reference
"Professor Cotton's death investigated", The Eagle, April 18, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-20. Clicked on the link, and it went to an error page for the eagle saying this article doesn't exist Robhakari (talk) 15:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, the link is dead. Anyone have another reference, or else we'll have to delete the comment about it being suspicious NPOV. Spuddddddd 4Mar08

The Eagle article is now on their website archives at http://209.189.226.235/stories/041807/am_20070418039.php However all it really says is that detectives were investigating. If there is no evidence that the story went further, it does not appear worth including in Wikipedia. Dirac66 (talk) 00:13, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Number of published articles
The lead paragraph states that Cotton published over 1700 scientific articles. While I don't dispute this claim, it is not supported by the reference given. I have added a tag.

I was able to find the following article which mentions his authorship of over 1600 articles. Is anyone aware of a reference substantiating the 1700+ claim? If so, please remove the tag and existing reference and replace, or if you prefer, update the text to say 1600+ and use the following reference instead: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1544265/Professor-F-Albert-Cotton.html

Kmva (talk) 19:35, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Cotton's autobiography (https://amzn.com/0128012161) contains a listing (Appendix E) of most of his peer-reviewed published articles, through number 1620 in 2008. There were a few more published posthumously - I am working with some of his final group members to finish out the list. An earlier list (through number 1571 in 2005) appears at: http://facotton.com/LMSBpages/publications.html I do not believe that the number reached 1700, so updating the number to 1600+ is appropriate. If I get an accurate final number I will update.

Leexray (talk) 20:17, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

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