Derek H.R. Barton:
Derek Harold Richard Barton was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
September 8, 1918 in Gravesend, Kent, England
Death:
March 16, 1998 in College Station, Texas
Claim to Fame:
Barton was a British organic chemist who shares the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Odd Hassel for their development of conformational analysis. Conformational analysis is the study of the three-dimensional structure of a molecule. Barton showed molecules could be assigned a preferred conformation and this information could be used to derive the geometry of other similar molecules.
