David Henry Solomon
David Henry Solomon , called Dave Solomon, (born November 19, 1929 in Adelaide ) is an Australian chemist ( macromolecular chemistry ).
Solomon studied chemistry at Sydney Technical College with an Associate Diploma in 1950 and at the New South Wales University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a master's degree in 1955. He received his doctorate there in 1959 (Studies in the Chemistry of Carbony Compounds ) and in 1968 he also received a D.Sc. from the University of New South Wales (Studies in the chemistry of coating compounds). While still a student, he worked for the paint manufacturer Dulux Australia (then Balm Paints). From 1955 to 1963 he was in charge of research into new paints. He was also sent to ICI in Slough in England in 1959/60 . From 1963 he went into polymer research at the national Australian research organization CSIRO , where he was still Senior Principal Research Scientist in the 1960s. At that time he was concerned with the interaction of organic polymers and mineral fillers and was therefore sent to the Georgia Kaolin Company in New Jersey in 1968/69. In 1970 he became Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO. In 1974, after a reorganization of the CSIRO, he became the first director of the Division of Applied Organic Chemistry, which he remained until 1991.
From 1990 to 1995 he was ICI Australia - Masson Professor and Head of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne . However, he also worked afterwards at the university with applications of polymers in ore processing and for preventing water evaporation.
He is known for developing a Living Free Radical Polymerization process in the 1970s: nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP, with Ezio Rizzardo ). This was the first method of the living polymerization with free radicals . He also developed plastic money (using plastic films with optically variable devices, OVDs) to be used for the $ 10 note at Australia's 200th anniversary in 1988. These were the first banknotes in the world made from polymers.
In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne . In 2009 he received the CSIRO Medal for Lifetime Achievement, in 2011 with Rizzardo the Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science and in 1994 the Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science , the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute . In 1990 he became a member and in 2016 he became Companion of the Order of Australia . In 2001 he received the Centenary Medal.
Fonts
- The Chemistry of Organic Film Formers, Wiley 1967, 2nd edition 1977
- The Chemistry of Pigments and Fillers, Wiley 1983
- The Catalytic Properties of Pigments, Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Inc., Atlanta, Georgia 1977
- as editor: Step Growth Polymerizations, New York: M. Dekker 1972
- with Graeme Moad : Free Radical Polymerization, 2nd edition, Elsevier 2006
- with Tom Spurling: The Plastic Banknote: From Concept to Reality, 2014
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The interest in forgery-proof Australian dollar notes has existed particularly since a large case of forgery in 1967
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| SURNAME | Solomon, David Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adelaide |