| Jacqueline K. Barton | |
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| Born | May 7, 1952 New York City |
| Nationality | USA |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Bell Labs Yale Hunter College Columbia Caltech |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia |
| Doctoral students | Anna Marie Pyle |
| 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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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.
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. Upon her marriage to fellow chemist, Peter Dervan, she moved to Caltech. She was named chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of California Institute of Technology, effective July 1, 2009.[1]
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