"A millennial overview of transition metal chemistry" #chempaperaday 100

I wanted to dedicate the 100th reading to F. Albert Cotton who I believe deserved a Nobel Prize in chemistry. You can read a short biography of him here:

http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/54/95.full.pdf

and here his biography as a book:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Golden-Age-Chemistry/dp/0128012161/ref=la_B001IR1HU6_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415238927&sr=1-4

The paper is a very short summary of transition metal chemistry starting with Werner complexes. I want to point a couple of his notes from the paper:

 "I note that the year 2000 is not the first year of the third millennium, no matter what the arithmetically-challenged of this world may like to think."

"At the beginning of the first millennium (i.e., six days after the birthday arbitrarily assumed for Jesus"

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2000/DT/B001668N#!divAbstract