The American Chemical Society bestowed its highest honor, the Priestley Medal, on Jacqueline Barton ’74BC, ’79GSAS, ’10HON. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and the chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where she conducts research on electron transport in DNA.
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