Raymond Baker (chemist)

Ray Baker
Born November 1, 1936[1]
Fields Organic chemistry
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles
University of Southampton
University of Leicester
Merck Sharp & Dohme Resesearch Labs[1]
BBSRC[1]
Alma mater University of Leicester
Thesis Detritiation Reactions in Aromatic Systems (1962)
Notable awards CBE (2002)
PhD
Fellow of the Royal Society (1994)

Professor Raymond Baker CBE PhD FRS (born 1 November 1936)[1] is a chemist and former Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.[1]

Education

Baker was educated at Ilkeston Grammar School and the University of Leicester, where he gained his PhD for research into Detritiation Reactions in Aromatic Systems in 1962.[2]

Career

After completing his PhD, Baker did postdoctoral research at UCLA from 1962–64. He was appointed a lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Southampton in 1964, Reader in 1974 and a Professor in 1977. Baker is a co-author of the textbook Mechanism in Organic Chemistry.[3]

Awards

Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994 and Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "BAKER, Prof. Raymond". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. Baker, Raymond (1962). Detritiation Reactions in Aromatic Systems (PhD thesis). University of Leicester.
  3. Boche, G. (1973). "Book Review: Mechanism in Organic Chemistry. By R. Alder, R. Baker, and J. M. Brown". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 12 (8): 680–681. doi:10.1002/anie.197306804.
Government offices
Preceded by
Tom Blundell
CEO of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
1996–2001
Succeeded by
Julia Goodfellow