Donald Holroyde Hey

Donald Holroyde Hey
FRS
Born (1904-09-12)12 September 1904
Swansea, Wales
Died 21 January 1987(1987-01-21) (aged 82)
Nationality United Kingdom

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

  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. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1988.0011. JSTOR 770054.
  2. Hey, D. H. (1934). "432. Amphoteric aromatic substitution. Part II. Reactions of benzoyl peroxide and phenylazotriphenylmethane". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 1966–1432. doi:10.1039/JR9340001966.
  3. 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.
  4. "Donald Holroyde Hey". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
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