Jacqueline Barton
| Jacqueline K. Barton | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 7, 1952 New York City |
| Nationality | USA |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Bell Labs Yale Hunter College Columbia Caltech |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia |
| Notable awards | NSF Waterman Award (1985) MacArthur Foundation fellow (1991) Weizmann Women & Science Award (1998) ACS Gibbs Medal (2006) National Medal of Science (2011) |
Jacqueline K. Barton (born May 7, 1952) is an American chemist. She is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of her research is transverse electron transport along double-stranded DNA, its implications in the biology of DNA damage and repair, and its potential for materials sciences applications.
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[edit] Education
Barton received her B.A. (summa cum laude) from Barnard College in 1974. She went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where she studied inorganic chemistry under the supervision of S.J. Lippard.
[edit] Career
After earning her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1979, Barton held post-doctoral appointments at Bell Labs and Yale University, where she worked with R.G. Shulman She earned tenure at Columbia University in the 1980s. During that time her main focus was the use of organo-ruthenium complexes to probe the physical conformations of DNA. Barton eventually moved to Caltech, where her research has focused on charge transport in DNA. At Caltech she married fellow chemist, Peter Dervan. She was named chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of California Institute of Technology, effective July 1, 2009.[1]
[edit] Awards and honors
- Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (1985)
- Fresenius Award (1986)
- American Chemical Society Eli Lilly and Company Award in Biological Chemistry(1987)
- American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1988)
- Mayor of New York's Award in Science and Technology (1988)
- American Chemical Society Baekeland Medal (1991)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)[2]
- MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1991)
- Garvan Medal of the American Chemical Society (1992)
- Tolman Medal of the American Chemical Society (1994)
- Havinga Medal (1995)
- Paul Karrer Medal (1996)
- Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society (1997)
- Weizmann Women & Science Award (1998)
- elected American Philosophical Society (2000)
- elected National Academy of Sciences (2002)
- Ronald Breslow Award in Biomimetic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society(2003)
- ACS Gibbs Medal (2006)
- National Medal of Science (2011)
[edit] References
- ^ http://today.caltech.edu/today/story-display.tcl?story_id=34302
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
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23% - 1952 births
- Columbia Engineering alumni
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- National Medal of Science laureates
- Barnard College alumni
- Living people
- American chemists
- Hunter College faculty
- Physical chemists
- MacArthur Fellows
- Dow Chemical Company
- California Institute of Technology faculty
- Recipients of the Garvan–Olin Medal
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
