1. PROFESSOR A. RICHARD BURKIN MSc, PhD, CEng, CChem, FRCS, FIMM 1923 – 2008

2. Summary of Richard Burkin’s Career
Born 1923, Stratford, East London, England
1942 BSc (Chemistry) Univ. of London then at Ilford Ltd working on war photographic projects
, Lecturer, Southampton Univ. College, MSc & PhD on metal-amine complexes in organic solvents
, Lecturer, Dept. Mineral Technology, RSM, Imperial College, London - surface & flotation chemistry
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer , Reader and Professor Hydrometallurgy Research Group, Departments of Metallurgy and (later) Mineral Technology, RSM
Consultancies with Davy Power Gas, Du Pont, Kennecott, Metallurgie-Hoboken & Interox Chemicals
Spin-off Companies Consort Research Ltd, and METNET
Died 2008, Brentwood, Essex, England
Full Obituary & Bibliography by Prof A.J. Monhemius
published in “Hydrometallurgy” (2008)

3. RICHARD BURKIN – PUBLISHED BOOKS
1. Burkin A.R., The Chemistry of Hydrometallurgical Processes London: E. & F.N. Spon Ltd, 1966.
2. Burkin A.R.(Ed.), Leaching and Reduction in Hydrometallurgy. London; Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1975.
3. Burkin A.R. (Ed.), Topics in Non-ferrous Extractive Metallurgy. Oxford; Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1980 (Critical Reports on Applied Chemistry, vol.1.)
 4. Burkin A.R. (Ed.), Extractive Metallurgy of Nickel.
Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, (Critical Reports on Applied Chemistry, vol.17.)
 5. Burkin A.R. (Ed.), Production of Aluminium and Alumina. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, (Critical Reports on Applied Chemistry, vol.20.)
 6. Burkin A.R. Chemical Hydrometallurgy: Theory and Principles.
London; Imperial College Press, 2001.

4. PATENTS (18)
Burkin A.R. and Barry B.T.K., “Treatment of zircon.”, British Patent , 1960.
Burkin A.R. and Barry B.T.K. " Process for reducing the silica content of zircon.", United States Patent , 1961. 
Burkin A.R., Meddings B. and Sawyer H.D., " Treatment of columbite and related minerals.“ United States Patent , 1962.
  Burkin A.R. and Sawyer H.D. “Treatment of pyrochlore.”,
Canadian Patent , 1963.
Burkin A.R. and Sawyer H.D.,“Recovery of niobium and tantalum from pyrochlore by roasting with alkalis.”, British Patent , 1964.
Burkin A.R., “Treatment of pyrochlore.”, United States Patent , 1964.
Burkin A. R. and Grayson-Smith I. J., “Coating silicon nitride fibres with chromium by thermal decomposition of bis(arene)chromium 0 and arene-chromium carbonyl complexes in inert organic solvents.”,
French Patent, 1,586,667, 1969

5. PATENTS (Continued)
Burkin A. R. and Grayson-Smith I. J.,“Coating silicon nitride fibres with chromium by thermal decomposition of bis(arene)chromium 0 and arene-chromium carbonyl complexes in inert organic solvents.”,
French Patent, 1,586,
Burkin A.R., “Deposition of metal values.”, British Patent , 1970.
Burkin A.R., “Production of metal powders and coatings.”,
United States Patent ,
Burkin A. R. and Grayson-Smith I. J., “Improvements in or relating to metal coatings.”, British Patent, 1,249,624, 1971
  Burkin A.R., “Deposition of copper.”,
United States Patent , 1974.
  Burkin A.R., “Deposition of copper values.”,
Canadian Patent , 1974.
Dain R.J., Manning G.D. and Burkin A.R., “Extractants (Cyclophosphazenes and siloxanes).”, PCT Intl. Appln , 1978

6. PATENTS (Continued)
Burkin A.R. and Chouzadjian K.A., “Process for the recovery of manganese from aqueous acidic solutions.”,
European Patent , 1979.
Ozensoy E. and Burkin A.R., " Separation of tungsten and molybdenum by solvent extraction.“
United States Patent, , 1980.
  Burkin A.R. and Monhemius A.J., " Extraction of pre-reduced lateritic ores with aqueous sulphuric acid in the presence of peroxidant.", British Patent 1,600,411, 1981.
Dain R.J., Manning G.D. and Burkin A.R., “Improvements relating to extractants.”, European Patent EP , 1983.