:Robert Paton (chemist)

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| awards = Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2015)

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Robert Paton won the 2015 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.{{cite web|title=RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/HarrisonMeldolaMemorialPrizes/2015-winner-Paton.asp|website=Royal Society of Chemistry|accessdate=16 June 2015}} Up to three Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes are awarded each year.{{cite web|title=Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize|url=http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/HarrisonMeldolaMemorialPrizes/Index.asp|website=Royal Society of Chemistry|accessdate=16 June 2015}} Paton received the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the American Chemical Society COMP division in fall 2015.{{cite web|title=The OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry|url=http://www.acscomp.org/awards/the-comp-acs-outstanding-junior-faculty-award|website=American Chemical Society Computers in Chemistry division |accessdate=9 Jan 2016}}

Paton was formerly an associate professor in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford{{cite web|title=Paton Research Group|url=http://paton.chem.ox.ac.uk|website=Paton Research Group|accessdate=16 June 2015}} and a Fellow of St Hilda's College.{{cite web|title=St Hilda's Academic Staff|url=http://www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/academic-staff/academic-staff-dr-robert-paton|website=St Hilda's College|accessdate=6 Jan 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305042132/http://www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/academic-staff/academic-staff-dr-robert-paton|archivedate=2016-03-05}} Since 2018, He has been a professor at the Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.{{Cite web|url=https://patonlab.com/robert-paton/|title = Rob Paton – Paton Research Group}}