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

References

  1. http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~laurence/laurence.html
  2. http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/staff/laurence/
  3. http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~laurence/biography.html.
  4. http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=4274

External links

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