Thomas J. Barton
Organosilicon Chemistry.
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Thomas J. Barton, distinguished professor of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, was born and raised in Texas. He received his Ph.D.
in organic chemistry at the University of Florida in 1967 and
worked as an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State before joining
the Iowa State faculty in that same year. Professor Barton has been
a National Academy of Sciences exchange scientist in the Soviet
Union, a NATO exchange scientist in France, a JSPS lecturer in
Japan, and a professeur d'echange at the University de Montpellier.
In 1981 he was appointed to the editorial board of the new ACS
journal Organometallics. Professor Barton was selected as the
recipient of the Kipping Award in organosilicon chemistry in 1982;
in 1983 was honored to be the second recipient of the Iowa
Governor's Science Teaching Medal; and in 1989 received the
Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry (DOE
Materials Sciences Research Competition). He received an additional
award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium as Laboratory Director
of the Year for Technology Transfer, 2003. In 1988 he became
Director of the Ames Laboratory (U. S. Department of Energy). He is
the recipient of the American Chemical Society's 1995 Midwest
Award. In 1998 he was appointed Director of ISU's Institute of
Physical Research & Technology. A consortium of 11 science and
technology research centers.
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