Professor Lloyd Jackman obituary
1 April 1926 – 30 August 2023
Lloyd Miles Jackman, aged 97, died in Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College, Pennsylvania, on the 30th August, 2023.
He was born in 1926 in Goolwa, a small town at the mouth of the River Murray in South Australia, to Charles Stuart and Florence Olive Jackman. He attended Prince Alfred College before enrolling in 1942 for a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of Adelaide. A Beit Fellowship, which he won upon completion of his PhD, took him to Imperial College, London. He remained there for 12 years, first as a post-doctoral fellow, then as a member of staff, ending as a Reader in Derek Barton’s Department of Organic Chemistry. He left Imperial College in 1962 to take up the Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.
Lloyd Jackman was one of the pioneers in the application of the newly developing technique of NMR spectroscopy to structural problems in organic chemistry. Through the courtesy of Geoffrey Wilkinson, who possessed one of the first NMR spectrometers in the UK, he was able to work night and day, using NMR for the elucidation of natural product structures and organic lithium salts.
Lloyd was co-author of a text entitled Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Organic Chemistry that became a key reference for those adopting NMR to solve long-standing puzzles in organic chemistry. The book appeared as one of a series of monographs edited by Derek Barton, who remained a lifelong friend.
In 1967, Lloyd was recruited by Tom Wartik, head of the Chemistry Department at The Pennsylvania State University. There Lloyd led a very productive research group until his retirement in 1991.
His marriage to Marie Sandow, celebrated in 1950, lasted 73 years. She survives along with two of their three sons.
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