SIR DEREK HAROLD RICHARD BARTON Chemist; (b. Gravesend (London), 8 September 1918 – d. College Station, Texas, 16 March 1998)

University professor: Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (1957−1978); director of Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (Institute for the Chemistry of Natural Substances), Paris (from 1977)

Membership of SASA: Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; foreign member from 15 December 1988

Awards and recognitions:  Nobel Prize for chemistry (shared with Odd Hassel), 1969; dr. h. c. of the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Salamanca, Belgrade, Columbia University; a great number of awards and recognitions…

Obituary: Godišnjak/SANU 105 (1999) 657-658 (M. Stefanović).

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