Donald Holroyde Hey

Welsh organic chemist
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IntroWelsh organic chemist
PlacesWales
wasChemist
Work fieldScience
Gender
Male
Birth12 September 1904, Swansea
Death21 January 1987 (aged 82 years)
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Biography

Donald Holroyde Hey FRS (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.
A photographic portrait of him is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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