Donald Holroyde Hey Explained
Donald Holroyde Hey |
Honorific Suffix: | FRS |
Birth Date: | 12 September 1904 |
Birth Place: | Swansea, Wales |
Nationality: | British |
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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]
Notes and References
- Cadogan . J. I. G. . John Cadogan. Davies . D. I. . 10.1098/rsbm.1988.0011 . Donald Holroyde Hey. 12 September 1904-21 January 1987 . . 34 . 294–320 . 1988 . 770054. free .
- Hey . D. H. . Donald Holroyde Hey. 432. Amphoteric aromatic substitution. Part II. Reactions of benzoyl peroxide and phenylazotriphenylmethane . 10.1039/JR9340001966 . Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) . 1966. 1934 .
- Book: John . Davies. John Davies (historian). Nigel . Jenkins . Nigel Jenkins. Baines . Menna. Peredur I. . Lynch. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . 2008 . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 367–368 . 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- Web site: Donald Holroyde Hey. National Portrait Gallery, London. 6 November 2014.