Jack Edward Baldwin

Sir Jack Baldwin
FRS
Born Jack Edward Baldwin
(1938-08-08) 8 August 1938
London, England, U.K
Nationality British
Alma mater Imperial College London
Known for Baldwin's rules
Awards Nakanishi Prize
Scientific career
Institutions University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor Derek Barton
Doctoral students John Sutherland
Website research.chem.ox.ac.uk/jack-baldwin.aspx
Arms of Sir Jack Baldwin: Argent, on a saltire sable a quatrefoil or[1]

Sir Jack Edward Baldwin FRS[2] (born 8 August 1938)[3][4] is a British chemist. He is a former Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1978–2005) and the former head of the organic chemistry at Oxford.[5][6]

Education

Baldwin was educated at Brighton Grammar School and Lewes College Grammar School. He attended Imperial College, London (BSc, DIC, PhD).[1] He received his Ph.D. working under the direction of Sir Derek H.R. Barton, FRS, Nobel Laureate.

Career and Research

Baldwin spent most of the years 1969–1978 at MIT, where he published his most significant work — Baldwin's rules for ring closure reactions. In 1978, he moved to Oxford to become head of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory. The laboratory formally closed in 2003, but his group moved to the new research facility, the Chemistry Research Laboratory on Mansfield road, and he is still an active researcher at Oxford.

Awards and honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 230. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. 1 2 Anon (1978). "Jack Baldwin FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society . Archived from the original on 2015-11-17.
  3. 1 2 "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Birthdays". The Guardian. Guardian Media. 8 Aug 2014. p. 39.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Baldw in Chem. Commun., 24 January 2006". Archived from the original on 11 October 2006.
  6. ↑ Jack Edward Baldwin publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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