Citizenship British Nationality British Fields Physical Chemistry | Known for Raman optical activity Academic advisor Peter Atkins Name Laurence Barron | |
Institutions University of Glasgow, Glasgow Books Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity | ||
Residence Glasgow, United Kingdom | ||
Laurence David Barron (born 1944 Southampton, England) FRS, FRSE has been Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow since 1998 (now Emeritus).
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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.
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.
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