Paul Doughty Bartlett

Paul Doughty Bartlett (born August 14, 1907 in Ann Arbor , † October 11, 1997 in Lexington (Massachusetts) ) was an American chemist who dealt with organic chemistry.

Life

Bartlett went to school in Indianapolis and studied chemistry at Amherst College (Bachelor in 1928) and Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in 1931 under James Bryant Conant . He then went to the Rockefeller Institute in New York City and the University of Minnesota . From 1934 he was an instructor at Harvard and from 1946 he had a full professor. From 1948 he was there Erving Professor of Chemistry. There he was head of a school of organic chemists (called the Bartlett Group ). In 1974 he retired and was Robert A. Welch Professor at Texas Christian University until his renewed retirement in 1985.

For several decades he headed a leading school in the Anglo-Saxon region (in addition to that of Christopher Kelk Ingold from University College London) in physical organic chemistry and was a leader in the US in developing university teaching in organic chemistry according to its principles (fundamental reaction mechanisms). Bartlett has published around 300 scientific articles as author and co-author.

The Bartlett-Condon-Schneider reaction is named after him, FE Condon and Abraham Schneider (1919-1997) (J. Am. Chem. Soc., Volume 66, 1944, p. 1531).

He received the National Medal of Science in 1968 , the Linus Pauling Medal in 1975 , the Gibbs Medal, the Roger Adams Medal of the American Chemical Society in 1963, the Wetherill Medal in 1970, and the Welch Award in Chemistry in 1981 . He was a Fulbright Fellow in 1957 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1957 and 1971. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1947), the American Philosophical Society (1978) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1946). He has received several honorary doctorates (including Chicago, Paris, Munich). In 1962 he received the AW von Hofmann gold medal. He was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Chemistry . In 1969 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Bartlett held 17 patents, for example in the areas of insect control, chemical weapons destruction, oil refining.

He was married to Mary Court since 1931 and had a son and two daughters.

Fonts

Editor: Non classical ions , Benjamin 1965

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Paul D. Bartlett at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Bartlett, Paul Doughty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ann Arbor
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1997
Place of death	Lexington, Massachusetts

[1] Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Paul D. Bartlett at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018.