Raymond Baker CBE FRS (born 1 November 1936)[1] is a British chemist and former Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
[1] Baker was educated at Ilkeston Grammar School and the University of Leicester, where he gained his PhD for research titled "Detritiation Reactions in Aromatic Systems" in 1962.
He was appointed a lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Southampton in 1964, Reader in 1974 and a Professor in 1977.
Baker is a co-author of the textbook Mechanism in Organic Chemistry.
[3] Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994 and Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002.