Paul Doughty Bartlett
Paul Doughty Bartlett ( born August 14, 1907 in Ann Arbor, † October 11, 1997 in Lexington ( Massachusetts)) was an American chemist who was concerned with organic chemistry.
Bartlett went to Indianapolis to school and studied chemistry at Amherst College (Bachelor 1928) and Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1931 with James Bryant Conant. After that, he was at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City and the University of Minnesota. From 1934 he was instructor at Harvard and from 1946 he was a full professor. From 1948 he was there Erving Professor of Chemistry. He was there of a school of organic chemists ( Bartlett Group called ). In 1974 he retired and Robert A. Welch became a professor at Texas Christian University until his retirement again in 1985.
He conducted over several decades a leading Anglo-Saxon school (next to the Christopher Kelk Ingold of University College London ) in physical organic chemistry and has been a leader in the construction of university teaching of organic chemistry by its principles in the U.S. ( fundamental reaction mechanisms ). Bartlett published about 300 scientific papers as author and co-author.
According to him, FE Condon and Abraham Schneider (1919-1997) ( J. Soc Am.Chem. ., Volume 66, 1944, S.1531 ) is the Bartlett -Condon -Schneider reaction named.
He received the 1968 National Medal of Science, 1975, the Linus Pauling Medal, the Gibbs Medal, 1963, the Roger Adams Medal of the American Chemical Society, 1970, Wetherill Medal, 1981 Welch Award in Chemistry. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1957 and 1957 and 1971 Guggenheim Fellow. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1947 ), the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was more honorary doctorates (including Chicago, Paris, Munich). In 1962 he received the AW 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 insect control, destruction of chemical weapons, oil refining.
He was married to Mary Court since 1931 and had a son and two daughters.
Writings
- Publisher: Non classical ions, Benjamin 1965