Prof. Dr. Glen B. Deacon works as an Emeritus Professor in the School of Chemistry at Monash University. He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) (HI) and a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide. His postdoctoral research work was carried out with Professor Sir Ronald Nyholm FRS at University College London with an additional collaboration with Professor Alwyn Davies FRS (UCL) and Dr John Green (NPL Teddington). He was appointed to a lectureship at Monash in 1966 and Senior Lecturer (1971) and Reader (1975). For his research work on Main Group Element Chemistry, he was awarded the DSc degree from the University of Adelaide in 1972. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1975. In 1994, he was appointed to a Personal Chair in Chemistry and was Professor of Chemistry from 2002 to 2012 when he was appointed Professor Emeritus. From 2002 to 2004, he served on the Committee of Experts of the Australian Research Council. In 2005–2006, he was a Senior Adviser in the Monash Research Office. In 2020, he was appointed to an Honorary Professorship at the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) at Deakin University. In 2006, he was awarded the Terrae Rarae Prize for Rare Earth Chemistry, and in 2007, he received the Burrows Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for Inorganic Chemistry. In 2012, the SO3 elimination synthesis of organometallic compounds discovered by the Deacon group in the 1970s was named the Deacon reaction (Organometallics, 2012, 31, 1801).