George Malcolm Dyson
George Malcolm Dyson , called Malcolm , (born April 5, 1902 in London , † December 1978 in Loughborough ) was a British chemist .
Life
Dyson studied chemistry at Oxford and received his PhD as an external graduate from the University of London. He worked on thiazoles and investigated their use as chemotherapeutic agents at the Applied Pathology Laboratory in Manchester. From 1928 he was at Loughborough College as head of the industrial chemistry department. From 1938 he headed research at Genatosan, the fine chemicals division of Fison.
Dyson developed a nomenclature system of chemical compounds in the 1940s. In 1949 he became a member of the IUPAC commission on nomenclature and from 1959 to 1963 he was research director of the Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus (Ohio) , where the CAS numbers were introduced under his direction (1965). The linear notation from Dyson was adopted (and not the Wiswesser Line Notation then widespread ) and modified with an algorithm by the mathematician Harry L. Morgan (based on the work of DJ Gluck at Du Pont), who converted two-dimensional structure diagrams into tabular form.
Also under his direction, work at CAS was converted to computers (IBM 1401) and the bibliographic aid Chemical Titles (1961) was introduced.
literature
- Dyson, George Malcolm, in: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, ISBN 978-3-817-11055-1 , p. 128.
Web links
- Charles H. Davis, Indexing and Index Editing at Chemical Abstracts before the registry system (PDF; 289 kB; English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dyson, George Malcolm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malcolm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1978 |
| Place of death | Loughborough |