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Derek Barton
English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS FRSE[1] (8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.[2][3][4][5]
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Born | Derek Harold Richard Barton (1918-09-08)8 September 1918 |
Died | 16 March 1998(1998-03-16) (aged 79) |
Resting place | La Grange Cemetery, Texas |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Imperial College London |
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Fields | Chemistry |
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Doctoral advisor | Ian Heilbron |
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