Richard Maling Barrer FRS (16 June 1910 – 12 September 1996) was a New Zealand-born chemist.
He followed this with a master's degree titled Studies in catalytic hydrogenation: the system HCN + 2H2=CH3NH2, completed in 1931.
[3] In 1932 he received an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship which allowed him to study at Eric Rideal's Colloid Science Laboratory in Cambridge University.
At Cambridge he was also a keen cross-country runner, winning the 1934 Oxford-Cambridge race and being awarded a Full Blue for Athletics.
[1] Barrer was the first to create a synthetic zeolite with no naturally occurring counterpart, in 1948.