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Donald Holroyde Hey | |
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| Born | 12 September 1904 |
| Died | 21 January 1987 (aged 82) |
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| Awards | Tilden Prize (1951) |
| 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]
Biography
[edit]Hey was born in Swansea, the son of Arthur and Frances Hey (née Baynham).[1] Aged 11, he won a choral scholarship to Magdalen College School, and received his school certificate in 1920, before matriculating in January 1921.[1]
After failing to achieve a scholarship to Oxford, and knowing that he could not afford the fees, Hey instead read chemistry at University College Swansea, entering in Autumn 1923 and graduating in 1926.[1]
Elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 1.1.1942 whilst researching in the Chemistry Department
A photographic portrait of him is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 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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