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Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton
FRS
FRSE
(8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English
organic chemist
and
Nobel Prize laureate
for 1969. Barton was born in
Gravesend, Kent
, to William Thomas and Maude Henrietta Barton (
née
Lukes). He attended
Gravesend Grammar School
(1926–29),
The King's School, Rochester
(1929–32),
Tonbridge School
(1932–35) and Medway Technical College (1937–39). In 1938 he entered
Imperial College London
, where he graduated in 1940 and obtained his
PhD
degree in
Organic Chemistry
in 1942. 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
Harvard University
, and was then appointed reader in organic chemistry and, in 1953, professor at
Birkbeck College
. In 1955 he became
Regius Professor of Chemistry
at the
University of Glasgow
, in 1957 he was appointed professor of organic chemistry at
Imperial College
. In 1950, Barton showed that organic molecules could be assigned a preferred
conformation
based upon results accumulated by chemical physicists, in particular by
Odd Hassel
. Using this new technique of
conformational analysis
, he later determined the geometry of many other natural product molecules. 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, and in 1959 Karl Folkers Visiting Professor of at the
Universities of Illinois
and
Wisconsin
. In 1960 he was appointed a visiting professor of the
University of California, Berkeley
, spending much of his time with William H. Dauben's group. The same year he was elected a foreign honorary member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
.
In 1949 he was the first recipient of the
Corday-Morgan Medal
and Prize awarded by the
Royal Society of Chemistry
. In 1954 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
and the International Academy of Science as well as, in 1956, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
; in 1965 he was appointed member of the
Council for Scientific Policy
. He was
knighted
in 1972, becoming formally
styled
Sir Derek in Britain. In 1978 he became Director of the
Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles
(ICSN - Gif Sur-Yvette) in
France
. 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.
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
Barton reaction
, the
Barton decarboxylation
, and the
Barton-McCombie deoxygenation
. Barton is the doctoral advisor of David Crich, a prestigious chemistry professor at
Wayne State University
.