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Derek Barton

1918 - 1998

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Derek Barton is the 170th most popular chemist (up from 220th in 2019), the 621st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 885th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Derek Barton ranks 170 out of 602. Before him are Bengt I. Samuelsson, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Willard Libby, John E. Walker, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and Robert Bruce Merrifield. After him are Richard F. Heck, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Akira Suzuki, William Standish Knowles, Alan J. Heeger, and Max Perutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Derek Barton ranks 32. Before him are William Holden, Bertram Brockhouse, Jerome Karle, Billy Graham, Paul D. Boyer, and Gunnar Sønsteby. After him are Frederick Reines, Muriel Spark, Chaim Herzog, Rosalia Lombardo, Arthur Kornberg, and Choi Hong Hi. Among people deceased in 1998, Derek Barton ranks 17. Before him are Vladimir Prelog, Carlos Castaneda, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, and Florence Griffith Joyner. After him are Niklas Luhmann, Conrad Schumann, Frederick Reines, Alan Shepard, Konstantinos Karamanlis, and Tameo Ide.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Derek Barton ranks 621 out of 8,785. Before him are David Attenborough (1926), Eystein II of Norway (1125), Mary Anning (1799), Robert Palmer (1949), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), and Hugh Dowding (1882). After him are Sophie, Countess of Wessex (1965), Colin Renfrew (1937), Isaac Barrow (1631), Donald Winnicott (1896), Daniel Craig (1968), and James Parkinson (1755).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Derek Barton ranks 24. Before him are William Crookes (1832), George Porter (1920), Harry Kroto (1939), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), and John E. Walker (1941). After him are Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Herbert C. Brown (1912), James Dewar (1842), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), and John Newlands (1837).

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