Derek H. R. Barton (1918-1998)

Awarded the Prize “for his contributions to the development of the concept of conformation its application in chemistry.”

British chemist. Barton was born in Gravesend, Engl on September 8, 1918. He was educated at Imperial College, London, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. He was appointed Professor (1953) in organic chemistry at Birkbeck College, London. He moved to a similar chair at Glasgow University in 1955 but returned to Imperial College in 1957 held the chair of chemistry until 1978, when he became Director of the Institute for the Chemistry of Natural Substances at Gif-sur-Yvette in France. In 1986 he became Distinguished Professor at Texas Agricultural Mechanical University. Barton died on March 16, 1998 in Texas, United States.