Anthony Barrett

Anthony Gerard Martin Barrett FRS is a British chemist, and Sir Derek Barton Professor of Synthesis, Glaxo Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College London. He is Director of the Wolfson Centre for Organic Chemistry in Medical Science.^[1] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.^[2] He obtained a BSc as well as PhD from Imperial College London in 1973 and 1975 respectively.

Career

• 1975-82 - Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, England.
• 1982-83 - Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, England.
• 1983-90 - Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
• 1990-93 - Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
• 1993- -Glaxo Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Wolfson Centre for Organic Chemistry in Medical Science.
• 1999- - Sir Derek Barton Professor of Synthesis, Imperial College, London, England.
• 2000-10 - Director of Science, Argenta Discovery Ltd, Harlow, England.
• 2009- - President, Medicinal and Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation, Lawrence, Kansas.

Honors and awards

• 1981 (1981): Meldola Medal and Prize^[3]
• 1994 (1994): Tilden Award and Lectureship^[4]
• 2004 (2004): Pedler Award and Lectureship^[5]
• 2005 (2005): Simonsen Lectureship^[6]
• 2010 (2010): Charles Rees Award^[7]

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