Laurence D. Barron | |
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Born | 1944 Southampton, England |
Residence | Glasgow, Scotland |
Citizenship | British |
Nationality | British |
Fields | Physical chemistry |
Institutions | University of Glasgow, Glasgow |
Known for | Raman optical activity |
Laurence David Barron (born 1944 Southampton, England) FRS, FRSE is Gardiner Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, since 1975. [1][2]
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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 studied 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 the 26th of May 2005.[4]