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John Buckingham (chemist)
John Buckingham (March 21, 1943 – August 28, 2015) was a British chemist known for his authorship of several chemical dictionaries including the Dictionary of Natural Products.
== Education and career ==
After winning a scholarship for Haberdashers’ Aske’s School at the age of 11, John's enthusiasm for chemistry led to a First at the University of Southampton before gaining his D.Phil from the University of Sussex.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr John Buckingham (1961 Leaver) - Passed Away August 2015 )〕
John was incredibly hard working and completely passionate about the chemical dictionaries that he helped to set up in the late 1970s. Originally he was a chemistry lecturer in William Klyne’s department at Westfield College, University of London. Professor Klyne was writing a book on organic stereochemistry for Chapman & Hall and John’s expertise and attention to detail made him the ideal co-author. So the Atlas of Stereochemistry was published in 1974 to great reviews, with two subsequent volumes following a few years later. John’s skills were recognized by the managing director at Chapman & Hall, Richard Stileman, who then engaged him on a full-time basis to prepare a new edition of the Heilbron’s Dictionary of Organic Compounds (DOC). This was a multi-volume reference work which needed bringing into the modern world. John was pivotal in converting it into a database, and this now forms the basis of the modern DOC and its related dictionaries.
Once the DOC was published, John’s attention turned towards the chemistry of natural products. Alkaloids like strychnine and morphine, taxol, all wonderfully complex molecules of life and death. John had the foresight to anticipate the tremendous growth in natural products research and its relevance to the modern drug industry. His expertise with deciphering chemical literature and organising natural products by structure, coupled with his unflagging energy and enthusiasm, culminated in the publication of the Dictionary of Natural Products. This heralded a new phase of publishing with electronic products very much at the forefront, and in fact the CD ROM version of the Dictionary was published in 1991, two years before the book was published. It continues to be updated twice a year and John continued working on it full-time until the end. No other publication has ever achieved the breadth and depth of the Dictionary of Natural Products and today it is widely regarded as the benchmark in natural product information. John was very proud of its success and it truly is his life’s work and his legacy.
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