Derek Barton
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| Born | Derek Harold Richard Barton 8 September 1918 |
| Died | 16 March 1998 (aged 79) |
| Resting place | La Grange Cemetery, Texas |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
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| Fields | Chemistry |
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| Doctoral advisor | Ian Heilbron |
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Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton
Education and early life
Barton was born in
He attended
Career and research
From 1942 to 1944 Barton was a government research chemist, then from 1944 to 1945 he worked for Albright and Wilson in Birmingham. He then became Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry of Imperial College, and from 1946 to 1949 he was ICI Research Fellow.
During 1949 and 1950 he was visiting lecturer in natural products chemistry at
In 1969, Barton shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Odd Hassel for “contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry."
In 1958 Barton was appointed Arthur D. Little Visiting Professor of
In 1949 he was the first recipient of the
In 1977, on the occasion of the centenary of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the British Post Office honoured him, and 5 other Nobel Prize-winning British chemists, with a series of four postage stamps featuring aspects of their discoveries.[7]
He moved to the United States in 1986 (specifically Texas) and became distinguished professor at Texas A&M University and held this position for 12 years until his death.
In 1996, Barton published a comprehensive volume of his works, entitled Reason and Imagination: Reflections on Research in Organic Chemistry.
As well as for his work on conformation, his name is remembered in a number of reactions in organic chemistry such as the
The newly built Barton Science Centre at Tonbridge School in Kent, where he was educated for 4 years, completed in 2019, is named after him.
Honours and awards
Barton was elected a
- Knight Bachelor (1972)- Légion d'honneur(1972)
Personal life
Sir Derek married three times: Jeanne Kate Wilkins (on 20 December 1944); Christiane Cognet (in 1969); and Judith Von-Leuenberger Cobb (in 1993).[11] He had a son by his first marriage.[when?]
References
- ^ JSTOR 3650246.
- JSTOR 1515591.
- ^ Derek Barton on Nobelprize.org
- ^ Barton's Nobel Lecture The Principles of Conformational Analysis
- ^ Video podcast of Barton talking about conformational analysis Archived 16 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
- ^ New Scientist 10 February 1977 p. 319
- ^ "List of Members". www.leopoldina.org. Archived from the original on 8 October 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
- ^ "D. H. R. Barton". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69495. Retrieved 27 January 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
External links
- Derek Barton on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 11 December 1969 The Principles of Conformational Analysis
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