Lidia Vallarino

Lidia Vallarino (1930–2017) was an inorganic chemist who was chemistry lecturer at the University of Milan. In the 1950s and 19960s, she was a rare example of a well-published female active in coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry.^[1][2]

Vallarino received her PhD in 1954 from the University of Milan under the supervision of L. Malatesta for work on isocyanide complexes.^[3] She later took a position at ICI Laboratories under Joseph Chatt, where she worked on diene complexes of the platinum group metals.^[4] As an independent scientist, she worked on both organorhodium chemistry^[5] and macrocyclic complexesof the lanthanides.^[6] She retired as professor of chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University.