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Sir Jack Baldwin
(8 Aug 1938 - 4 Jan 2020)
English chemist who originated Baldwin’s Rules for ring closure reactions in organic chemistry.
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Science Quotes by Sir Jack Baldwin (5 quotes)
Chemistry is about making forms of matter that have never existed.
— Sir Jack Baldwin
Quoting Jack Baldwin, in the opening sentence of article, Georgina Ferry,'Jack Baldwin (1938-2020)', Periodic: The Magazine of the Department of Chemistry (2020-2021), Issue No. 8, 4, on web.chem.ox.ac.uk website of Oxford University, Dept of Chemistry. Reprinted from Nature (7 Feb 2020), 578, 272.
Emil Fischer and Sir Robert Robinson are two of the three greatest organic chemists of all time.
— Sir Jack Baldwin
Baldwin’s remark in one of his organic chemistry classes, as recalled Michael P. Filosa writing an obituary, 'In Memory of Sir Jack Baldwin' on the nesacs.org website of the Northeastern Section, Northeastern Section, American Chemical Society. Filosa annotated that “He intentionally did not name who in his mind was the third greatest organic chemist and left that to our imagination.”
Molecules from Mars.
— Sir Jack Baldwin
The term used by Jack Baldwin for natural products whose biosynthesis was baffling, as stated by Georgina Ferry in 'Jack Baldwin (1938-2020)', Periodic: The Magazine of the Department of Chemistry (2020-2021), Issue No. 8, 4, on web.chem.ox.ac.uk website of Oxford University, Dept of Chemistry. Reprinted from Nature (7 Feb 2020), 578, 272.
The number of stars making up the Milky Way is about 10¹¹ or something like the number of raindrops falling in Hyde Park in a day’s heavy rain.
— Sir Jack Baldwin
From review of Harlow Shapley, Of Stars and Men in 'Man and his Universe', New Scientist (12 Mar 1959), 594,
This class is organized like the Catholic Church. If you have a problem, you first see your clergyman, aka your recitation section leader. If your needs are greater you go to your Bishop, Dr. Viavattene. However, like the Church you never, ever expect an audience with the Pope.
— Sir Jack Baldwin
Baldwin’s instruction in his first lecture of an organic chemistry course, as recalled Michael P. Filosa writing an obituary, 'In Memory of Sir Jack Baldwin' on the nesacs.org website of the Northeastern Section, Northeastern Section,American Chemical Society.
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- 8 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Baldwin's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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