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Derek Barton

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Also known as Derek Harold Richard Barton, Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton, Derek H. R. Barton

English organic chemist (1918–1998)

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Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (1918–1998) was a British chemist and university teacher whose work focused on organic chemistry and stereochemistry. Born in Gravesend, he was educated at Tonbridge School, Imperial College London, and the University of London. His doctoral advisor was Ian Heilbron, and he later supervised Jack Baldwin. Barton held positions at Imperial College London, Birkbeck, University of London, Harvard University, and Texas A&M University. He died in College Station and is buried at Texas A&M University.

Barton was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His published works include *Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry*, *Elude*, *Consequences Within Chaos*, and *Hidden*.

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Person · Open Library

Works
14

Top works

  • Elude : Part One
  • Consequences Within Chaos
  • Hidden
  • Elude
  • Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1982-09-17
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Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3
Total plays
9

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,677x

  2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,706x

  3. Jalview Version 2—a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench

    · 2009 · cited 9,792x

  4. Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    · 2014 · cited 9,238x

  5. <scp>micro</scp>‐<scp>checker</scp>: software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data

    · 2004 · cited 8,898x

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Quotes

  • “I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1969

    “for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry”

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Encyclopedic overview

Insignia of a Knight Bachelor Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS FRSE (8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.

Education and early life

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