Awards & Winners

Jacqueline Barton

Date of Birth 07-May-1952
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Jacqueline K Barton
Profession Chemist, Biophysical Chemist, Professor
Jacqueline K. Barton New York City, NY, is an American chemist. She is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of her research is transverse electron transport along double-stranded DNA, its implications in the biology of DNA damage and repair, and its potential for materials sciences applications. At Caltech she married fellow chemist, Peter Dervan. and they have one daughter, Elizabeth.

Awards by Jacqueline Barton

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2010


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For discovery of a new property of the DNA helix, long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics. Her experiments reveal a strategy for how DNA repair proteins locate DNA lesions and demonstrate a biological role for DNA-mediated charge transfer.)