Biography:Donald Holroyde Hey

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Donald Holroyde Hey

FRS
Born(1904-09-12)12 September 1904
Swansea, Wales
Died21 January 1987(1987-01-21) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry

Donald Holroyde Hey FRS[1] (12 September 1904 – 21 January 1987) was a Welsh organic chemist. He was notable for his paper proposing that the decomposition of benzoyl peroxide gave rise to free phenyl radicals.[2][3]

A photographic portrait of him is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.[4]

References

  1. Cadogan, J. I. G.; Davies, D. I. (1988). "Donald Holroyde Hey. 12 September 1904-21 January 1987". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 34: 294–320. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0011. 
  2. Hey, D. H. (1934). "432. Amphoteric aromatic substitution. Part II. Reactions of benzoyl peroxide and phenylazotriphenylmethane". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 1966. doi:10.1039/JR9340001966. 
  3. Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines et al., eds (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. pp. 367–368. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6. 
  4. "Donald Holroyde Hey". National Portrait Gallery, London. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp75973/donald-holroyde-hey.