Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.
10 Facts About Derek Barton
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From 1942 to 1944 Derek Barton was a government research chemist, then from 1944 to 1945 he worked for Albright and Wilson in Birmingham.
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Derek Barton then became Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry of Imperial College, and from 1946 to 1949 he was ICI Research Fellow.
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In 1950, Derek Barton showed that organic molecules could be assigned a preferred conformation based upon results accumulated by chemical physicists, in particular by Odd Hassel.
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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.
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Derek Barton was knighted in 1972, becoming formally styled Sir Derek in Britain.
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In 1996, Derek Barton published a comprehensive volume of his works, entitled Reason and Imagination: Reflections on Research in Organic Chemistry.
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Derek Barton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1954.
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Derek Barton was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1970 and the American Philosophical Society in 1978.
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Sir Derek Barton married three times: Jeanne Kate Wilkins ; Christiane Cognet ; and Judith Von-Leuenberger Cobb.