Jack Baldwin (chemist)

Sir
Jack Baldwin
FRS
Born
Jack Edward Baldwin

(1938-08-08)8 August 1938
London, England, U.K
Died5 January 2020(2020-01-05) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
Alma materImperial College London
Known forBaldwin's rules
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Doctoral advisorDerek Barton
Doctoral studentsJohn Sutherland
Websiteresearch.chem.ox.ac.uk/jack-baldwin.aspx
Arms of Sir Jack Baldwin: Argent, on a saltire sable a quatrefoil or[1]
Commemoration plaque for the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, headed by Jack Baldwin in 1978-2003

Sir Jack Edward Baldwin FRS[2] (8 August 1938[3][4] – 5 January 2020[5]) was a British chemist. He was a Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1978–2005)[6] and head of the organic chemistry at Oxford.[7][8]

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  3. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 8 August 2014. p. 39.
  5. ^ "Sir Jack Baldwin FRS (individual news story)". Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  6. ^ Moses, John E.; Adlington, Robert M. (2005). "Sir Jack Baldwin, FRS: Biomimetic studies at Oxford". Chemical Communications (48): 5945–5952. doi:10.1039/B512961C. PMID 16333494. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Interview with Baldw in Chem. Commun., 24 January 2006". Archived from the original on 11 October 2006.
  8. ^ Jack Baldwin publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)