Background
BURNS, Duncan was born on May 30, 1934 in Wolverhampton. Son of James Thorbum Bums and Oine Mary Constance (nee Waugh) Burns.
professor of analytical chemistry
BURNS, Duncan was born on May 30, 1934 in Wolverhampton. Son of James Thorbum Bums and Oine Mary Constance (nee Waugh) Burns.
Whitdiffe Mount School and Leeds University.
Assistant lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Medway College, of Technology 1958-1959, 1959-1963. Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry, Woolwich Polytechnic 1963-1966, Loughborough University 1966-1971, Reader 1971-1975. Professor, of Analytical Chemistry, Queen"s University, Belfast since 1975.
Redwood Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry 1982, President Analytical Division 1988-1990.
Royal Society of Chemistry.
Married Valerie Mary Vinton in 1961 (separated in 1989).