Professor Jacqueline K. Barton is the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry. Professor Barton is a leading figure in the chemical sciences who has made major advances in our fundamental understanding of molecular-level processes that support human life, to the benefit of humankind. With this award, she is being recognized for her ground-breaking work on the use of inorganic coordination complexes to target local DNA structures and to study charge transport through DNA.
