Laurence D. Barron
| Laurence D. Barron | |
|---|---|
| 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]
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 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]
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
- ↑ http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/staff/laurence/
- ↑ http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~laurence/biography.html.
- ↑ http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4274
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, January 01, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.