Laurence D Barron
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Laurence David Barron FRS, FRSE is Gardiner Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Glasgow
, Glasgow
, since 1975.
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.
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.
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
, Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, since 1975.
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
Lincoln College, Oxford
Lincoln College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is situated on Turl Street in central Oxford, backing onto Brasenose College and adjacent to Exeter College...
, with Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins
Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics...
earning a D.Phil in 1969.
He studied with A. David Buckingham
A. David Buckingham
Amyand "David" Buckingham, CBE, FRS is a chemist, with primary expertise in chemical physics. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Emeritus Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He obtained a B.Sc. and M. Sc., under Professor R. J. W...
, at Cambridge University, from 1969 to 1975, holding a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship in 1974–75.
Barron is best known for his pioneering work on Raman optical activity
Raman optical activity
Raman optical activity is a vibrational spectroscopic technique that is reliant on the difference in intensity of Raman scattered right and left circularly polarised light due to molecular chirality.- History of Raman optical activity :...
, and was made a Fellow
Fellow
A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who are awarded...
of the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
on the 26th of May 2005.