By:  Turner                                            S.R. No. 815
    1-1                           SENATE RESOLUTION
    1-2        WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is proud to
    1-3  recognize Sir Derek Barton on the occasion of his receiving
    1-4  the 1995 Priestly Award; and
    1-5        WHEREAS, A Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Sir Derek Barton
    1-6  was selected for the award by the American Chemical Society during
    1-7  the society's national meeting recently in Anaheim; and
    1-8        WHEREAS, The 76-year-old chemist has been a distinguished
    1-9  professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University since 1986, and
   1-10  he has spent the majority of his career in France and his homeland,
   1-11  Great Britain; and
   1-12        WHEREAS, A noted scholar, he won the Nobel Prize in 1969
   1-13  for his work with steroids and molecular structures; he is one of
   1-14  two professors at Texas A&M University who have won the Nobel Prize;
   1-15  and
   1-16        WHEREAS, Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1972 for
   1-17  his work, this outstanding scientist won the American Chemical
   1-18  Society's Second Centennial Chemistry Award in 1974, commemorating
   1-19  the anniversary of Joseph Priestly's discovery of oxygen; this award
   1-20  is given only once every 100 years; now, therefore, be it
   1-21        RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,
   1-22  74th Legislature, hereby congratulate Sir Derek Barton on
   1-23  receiving the 1995 Priestly Award; and, be it further
    2-1        RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for
    2-2  him as an expression of the high regard of the Texas Senate.
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    2-4                                       President of the Senate
    2-5                                    I hereby certify that the above
    2-6                               Resolution was adopted by the Senate
    2-7                               on April 26, 1995.
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    2-9                                       Secretary of the Senate
   2-10                               ______________________________________
   2-11                                        Member, Texas Senate