Donald Holroyde Hey
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Donald Holroyde Hey | |
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Born | |
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. JSTOR 770054.
- ^ 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; Lynch, Peredur I., 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. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
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