Background
BALDWIN, Jack was born on August 8, 1938 in London. Son of Frederick C. Baldwin and Olive F. Headland.
BALDWIN, Jack was born on August 8, 1938 in London. Son of Frederick C. Baldwin and Olive F. Headland.
He studied at Imperial College, London, and spent most of the years 1969–1978 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he published his most significant work — Baldwin"s rules for ring closure reactions.
Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry, Imperial College 1963, Lecturer 1966. Assistant Professor Pennsylvania State University 1967, Association Professor 1969.
Association Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1970, Professor 1972.
Daniell Professor, of Chemistry King"s College, London 1972. Professor, of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1972-1978.
Waynflete Professor, of Chemistry, University of Oxford, and Head, Dyson Perrins Laboratory since 1978. Honorary Doctor of Science (Warwick) 1988.
Corday Morgan.
Royal Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Married Christine L. Franchi in 1977.