Michael Franz Lappert (31 December 1928 â 28 March 2014) was a Czech-born British inorganic chemist. Mainly located at the University of Sussex, he was recognized for contributions to organometallic complexes.
Lappert was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the UK as a Kindertransport refugee. He received his PhD in 1951 at the Northern Polytechnic, London.
His areas of research often included studies on low coordination numbers and metal amido complexes.
Lappert was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979.