Barton, Derek Harold Richard, Sir

1918 - Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton is a British physical chemist was born on 8th of September.

1938 - He entered Imperial College, University of London.

1940-1942 - Graduated in 1940 and obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1942.

1942-1944 - Barton was a government research chemist.

1945 - He was with Albright and Wilson in Birmingham.

1946-1949 - Barton was ICI Research Fellow.

1949-1950 - Visiting Lecturer in the Chemistry of Natural Products, at Harvard University.

       - Using this new technique of "conformational analysis", he later determined the geometry of many other natural product molecules.

1953 - Appointed Reader in Organic Chemistry and Professor at Birkbeck College.

1954 - Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society.

1955 - Became Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.

1957 - Appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College.

1965 - He was appointed member of the Council for Scientific Policy.

1969 - Barton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry."

1972 - He was knighted but chose to be known as Sir Derek only in Britain.

1978 - Became Director of the Natural Products Institute in France.