Laurence D. Barron

Laurence David Barron FRS, FRSE (born 1944 Southampton, England) has been Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow since 1998 (now Emeritus).[1][2]

Laurence D. Barron
Born1944
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
Known forRaman optical activity
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Glasgow

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 carried out post-doctoral research 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 26 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

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