Biography:Donald Holroyde Hey
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Donald Holroyde Hey FRS | |
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| Born | 12 September 1904 Swansea, Wales |
| Died | 21 January 1987 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | British |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Donald Holroyde Hey". National Portrait Gallery, London. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp75973/donald-holroyde-hey.
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