Jack Baldwin (chemist)
Jack Baldwin | |
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| Born | Jack Edward Baldwin 8 August 1938 |
| Died | 5 January 2020 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Known for | Baldwin's rules |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Derek Barton |
| Doctoral students | John Sutherland |
| Website | research |
Sir Jack Edward Baldwin
Education
Baldwin was the second son of Frederick C N Baldwin and Olive F Headland. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School and
Career and Research
After four years on the staff at Imperial College, Baldwin moved to the United States: first to
One of Baldwin's passions was finding out how nature makes chemicals that researchers cannot. This led him to ‘biomimetic’ synthesis: using the principles of nature to improve the generation of biomolecules in the laboratory.[11]
The Baldwin group’s range of interests includes mechanisms of reactions; total synthesis of natural products such as trichoviridin, acromelic acid A, hypoglycin A and lactacystin; and biomimetic synthesis of natural products such as (-)-xestospongin A. Baldwin published over 700 papers.[5]
Georgina Ferry's obituary of Baldwin[11] notes that "he had little time for the academic conventions of Oxford: he spoke his mind." and that "he enjoyed good food, fine wine, powerful motorbikes, fast cars and his dogs." Some of these aspects of his character are illustrated in a three-part documentary.[12]
Some positions held
Derived from Who's Who 2020.[13]
- 1963 Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry, Imperial College
- 1966 Lecturer
- 1967 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Penn State
- 1969 Associate Professor
- 1969-70 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
- 1970 Associate Professor of Chemistry
- 1972 Daniell Professor of Chemistry, King’s College, London
- 1972-78 Professor of Chemistry, MIT
Awards and honours
- 1975 Corday Morgan Medal and Prize, Chemical Society[13]
- 1978 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[2]
- 1984 Paul Karrer Gold Medal at the University of Zurich[13]
- 1987 Hugo Müller Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry[13]
- 1987 Max Tishler Award, Harvard University[13]
- 1988 Dr Paul Jansen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, Belgium
- 1993 Davy Medal[14]
- 1994 Elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]
- 1997 Invested as a Knight Bachelor[1]
- 1999 Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society)[14]
- 2002 Nakanishi Prize
- 2006 Paracelsus Prize[14][15]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ a b Anon (1978). "Jack Baldwin FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
- ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
- ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 8 August 2014. p. 39.
- ^ a b c "Sir Jack Baldwin FRS (individual news story)". Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- PMID 16333494. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ "Interview with Baldw in Chem. Commun., 24 January 2006". Archived from the original on 11 October 2006.
- ^ Jack Baldwin publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- . Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ "Jack E. Baldwin". Chemistry Tree. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ S2CID 211054600.
- ^ See Parts I (first 1:50 min.) and III (all) "The Cutting Edge". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U6289. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c "Jack Baldwin (Fellows Directory)". The Royal Society. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ "Paracelsus Prize". Swiss Chemical Society. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
