Ian Heilbron

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Sir Ian Morris Heilbron , also Isidore Morris Heilbron (born November 6, 1886 in Glasgow , † September 14, 1959 in London ) was a British organic chemist .

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Ian Morris Heilbron was born in 1886 to David and Fanny Heilbronn. He grew up with seven siblings in Glasgow City, Scotland. Heilbron's enthusiasm for chemistry was already evident during his time in high school and was ultimately able to prevail over his father's concerns.

He studied at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow (organic chemistry at George Gerald Henderson ) and from 1907 to 1909 when Arthur Hantzsch at the University of Leipzig , at which he in 1909 with the work over the polychrome salts from Oximidooxazolonen doctorate was. He then briefly worked in industry (British Dyestuffs Corp., later Imperial Chemical Industries - he remained its advisor until 1949) and from 1909 lecturer at the Royal Technical College. During the First World War he served as an officer in Greece , for which he received the Distinguished Service Order in 1918 . In 1919 he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Royal Technical College and in 1920 Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Liverpool . From 1933 he was a professor at the University of Manchester (later Sir James Hall Professor ) and from 1938 to 1949 at Imperial College . From 1949 to 1958 he was director of the Brewing Industry Research Foundation.

For services as advisor to the government in World War II (Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Production) he was beaten on March 12, 1946 to the Knight Bachelor . During this time he was involved in the introduction of DDT (they discovered that one of the isomers of Geigy's product Cesarol was an insecticide), which provides effective protection against malaria and yellow fever on mosquito nets. During this time he was also involved in the analysis of the structure and synthesis of penicillin .

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1931). In 1945 he received the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society (as the first non-US citizen) and in 1951 he received the Royal Medal , in particular for merits in the synthesis of vitamin A and polyenes . Research on vitamins (vitamins A, D) and polyenes took place in Liverpool during his time. In 1943 he received the Davy Medal .

Heilbron was the editor of the Dictionary of Organic Compounds and editor-in-chief of Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ AH Cook: Ian Morris Heilbron. 1886-1959. In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. JSTOR, 2010, accessed April 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ Chemical & Engineering News: Chemical & Engineering News: The Priestly Medal - 1945: Ian Morris Heilbron (1886-1959). Retrieved April 5, 2017 .
  3. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Ian (Isidore) Morris Heilbron at academictree.org, accessed on February 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Heilbron, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heilbron, Ian Morris (full name); Heilbron, Isidore Morris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British organic chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1959
Place of death London