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Derek Barton
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Derek Barton

1918 – 1998 · aged 80

English organic chemist (1918–1998)

Born
8 Sept 1918 · Gravesend
Died
16 Mar 1998 · College Station

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 92 years
  1. 8 Sept 1918BornBorn in Gravesend
  2. 1947AwardEdward Harrison Memorial Prize
  3. 1949AwardCorday-Morgan Prize
  4. 1952AwardTilden Prize
  5. 1955 – 1957RoleRegius Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow University
  6. 1957AwardErnest Guenther Award
  7. 1959AwardRoger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry
  8. 1961AwardDavy Medal
  9. 1962AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Montpellier
  10. 1969AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
  11. 1970AwardRobert Robinson Award
  12. 1970AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  13. 1972AwardLongstaff Prize
  14. 1972AwardRoyal Medal
  15. 16 Mar 1998DiedDied in College Station

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1918 – 1998).

  1. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  2. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  3. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  4. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  5. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  6. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  7. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1938Munich Agreement
  9. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  10. 1939 – 1945World War II
  11. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  12. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  13. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  14. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  15. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  16. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  17. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  18. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  20. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  21. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  23. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  24. 1956Suez Crisis
  25. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  27. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  29. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  31. 1968Prague Spring
  32. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  33. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  34. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  35. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  37. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  38. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  39. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  40. 1985Schengen Agreement

Biography

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.

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