James Barber#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 370 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/barber/people/jbarber.html |
James Barber passed away January 5, 2020.
Positions Held
- since 1990 Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
- since 1990 Director, Centre for Photomolecular Sciences, Imperial College London
- 1989 - 1999 Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
- 1989 - 1991 Dean of the Royal College of Science, Imperial College London
- 1979 - 1990 Professor of Plant Physiology, Imperial College London
- 1974 - 1979 Reader in Plant Physiology, Imperial College London
- 1968 - 1974 Lecturer, Imperial College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Photosynthesis and the functional role of the photosystems
- Artificial photosynthesis research
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Elected Member of Academia Europaea
- 1989 & 2001 Miller Visiting Professorship at Berkeley, UC, USA
- 1992 Honorary Doctorate, University of Stockholm, Sweden
- 1995 Selby Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
- 2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund/Federation of American Soc. for Experimental Biol. Visiting Prof. Award in Basic Medical Sciences, Univ. California, USA
- 2002 The Flintoff Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK
- 2003 Elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Elected to the Fellowship of The Royal Society London
- 2005 Awarded the Italgas Prize for Energy and Environment
- 2006 Awarded Novartis Prize and Medal of The Biochemistry Society
- 2007 Awarded Wheland Medal and Prize of the University of Chicago
- 2007 Elected President of the International Society for Photosynthesis Research
- 2008 Arnon Lecture and Prize ( UC Berkeley )
- 2008 Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor to Singapore
- 2010 Honorary DSc, University of East Anglia
- 2011 Sir Ernst Chain Distinguished Lecture (London, UK)
- 2013 Interdisciplinary Prize and Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry
