Laurence D. Barron

Laurence David Barron (born 1944 Southampton, England) FRS, FRSE has been Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow since 1998 (now Emeritus). ^[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 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 the 26th of May 2005.^[4]

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.

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2005

Fellows	James Barber Martin T. Barlow Laurence D. Barron Andrew Blake Harry Bryden Stephen Busby Luca Cardelli Deborah Charlesworth John Collinge Paul Corkum John Croxall Tom Curran John Diffley Julian Downward Ronald Ekers Robert Evans Philip Richard Evans Alastair Fitter Uta Frith David Gadsby Douglas Higgs Brian Kennett David Masser Thomas Masters Tom McKillop Goverdhan Mehta Roger Ervin Miller Michael J. Morgan Ian Paterson John Richard Anthony Pearson Philip Power Nicholas Proudfoot Trevor Robbins Douglas Ross Philip Russell Peter John Sadler Christopher Snowden David Spiegelhalter Daniel St Johnston Lloyd N. Trefethen Richard S. Ward Colin Watts John Graham White Ernest Marshall Wright

Foreign	Raoul Bott Catherine Cesarsky Ilkka Hanski Hartmut Michel Ryōji Noyori Harold Varmus

Honorary	Leonard Wolfson

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