Derek H. R. Barton (1918 - 1998) With great sadness I learned with confirmation that Dr. Derek H. R. Barton died in the evening of March 16, 1998, of age 80. Professor Barton is a great scientist and a very kind human being. He has been very supportice to our electronic journal, MOLECULES (http://www.mdpi.org/molecules) and served on the Editorial Board. He is also immediately accepted my invitation to be a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of ECSOC-1 as well as ECSOC-2 (http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-2.htm), The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry. I have attended his lecture entitled "How to win a Nobel Prize" twice. He is very active in research and always ready to embrace new things such as Internet application in chemistry. We exchanged e-mails several times recently. Shu-Kun Lin Editor-in-Chief, MOLECULES President, MDPI --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Shu-Kun Lin Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland MDPI http://www.mdpi.org/ Molecules http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/ ECSOC-2 http://www.mdpi.org/ecsoc-2.htm e-mails: Lin@ubaclu.unibas.ch Lin@mdpi.org Tel. +41 79 322 3379, Fax +41 61 302 8918 -------------------------------------------------------- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)