Basil Weedon

Basil Weedon
Oil on canvas painting
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
In office
1976–1988
Preceded byJohn Butterfield
Succeeded byColin Campbell
Personal details
Born(1923-07-18)18 July 1923
Wimbledon, London
Died10 October 2003(2003-10-10) (aged 80)
Alma materImperial College, London

Professor Basil Charles Leicester Weedon CBE, FRS (18 July 1923 – 10 October 2003) was an organic chemist and university administrator. Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, he was the first to map the structures of carotenoid pigments, including astaxanthin, rubixanthin and canthaxanthin.[1]

  1. ^ Pattenden, G. (2005). "Basil Charles Leicester Weedon. 18 July 1923 -- 10 October 2003: Elected FRS 1971". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 51: 425. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2005.0029.