Jack Baldwin
Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (born August 8, 1938 in London - † January 4, 2020 ) was a British chemist and Emeritus Waynflete Professor of Organic Chemistry at Oxford University .
life and work
Baldwin studied at Imperial College in London and received his doctorate in 1964 in the working group of Nobel Prize winner Sir Derek Barton on the structure elucidation of byssochlamic acid, a characteristic metabolic product of Byssochlamys fulva . In 1967 Baldwin went to Pennsylvania State University as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. In 1970 he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he became Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1971 . He spent most of the years up to 1978 at MIT, where he published his most important discovery, the Baldwin rules for ring-closing reactions.
The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded him the Corday Morgan Medal in 1973 . Five years later he was admitted to the Royal Society as a Fellow and accepted a position as Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, where he remained for 27 years until his retirement in 2005. In 1994 Baldwin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1997 he was knighted with the knight bachelor's degree . In 1998 he received the Robert Robinson Award , in 1984 the Paul Karrer Medal and in 2008 the Sir Derek H. Barton Gold Medal . He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .
Baldwin was awarded the Leverhulme Medal in recognition of his work on the synthesis and biosynthesis, especially of the β-lactam antibiotics and the associated biosynthetic problems in studying the enzymology of the process and deriving the crystal structure of isopenicillin-N synthase .
Although now retired, Baldwin was still active with a research group at Oxford University. The research focus is on so-called biomimetic chemistry .
literature
- Georgina Ferry: Jack Baldwin (1938-2020). Organic chemist whose rules aided the synthesis of natural products. In: Nature . Volume 578, 2020, p. 212, doi: 10.1038 / d41586-020-00357-1 , full text .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jack Baldwin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Prof. Baldwin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (1938-2020). In: ChemViews Magazine. January 10, 2020, accessed on January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Jack E. Baldwin at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baldwin, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baldwin, Jack E .; Baldwin, Jack Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 2020 |