Derek Barton - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1969
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Derek Barton

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1969
for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry
Together with: Odd Hassel
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
9/8/1918
place of birth
Gravesend
date of death
3/16/1998
place of death
College Station
Lived
79 years
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1970
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 9/5/1975
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1978
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/18/1954
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
    • start time: 1956
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1994
  • Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
position held
  • Regius Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow University
    • end time: 9/30/1957
    • start time: 1/11/1955
employer
  • National Center for Scientific Research
  • Birkbeck, University of London
  • Harvard University
  • Texas A&M University
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Glasgow
educated at
  • Imperial College London
  • University of London
  • Tonbridge School
  • Gravesend Grammar School
  • King's School, Rochester
doctoral student
  • Paul Jose de Mayo
  • D. John Faulkner
  • A.E.H. Machado
  • David Crich
  • Jack Baldwin
field of work
  • stereochemistry
  • organic chemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
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