Laurence D. Barron
Laurence D. Barron | |
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| Born | 1944 |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Known for | Raman optical activity |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Glasgow |
Laurence David Barron FRS, FRSE (born 1944 Southampton, England) has been Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow since 1998 (now Emeritus).[1][2]
Life
He studied chemistry at the Northern Polytechnic, and earned a First Class Honours Degree of London University in 1965. He studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, with Peter Atkins earning a D.Phil. in 1969. He carried out post-doctoral research with A. David Buckingham, at Cambridge University, from 1969 to 1975, holding a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship in 1974–75.[3]
Barron is best known for his pioneering work on Raman optical activity, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society on 26 May 2005.[4]
Works
- Nina Berova; Kōji Nakanishi; Robert Woody, eds. (2000). "Vibrational Raman Optical Activity". Circular dichroism: principles and applications. Wiley-VCH. ISBN 978-0-471-33003-5.
References
- ^ http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~laurence/laurence.html
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~laurence/biography.html.
- ^ https://royalsociety.org/people/laurence-barron-11040/
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