Michael Elliott (chemist)

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Michael Elliott (born September 30, 1924 in London - † October 17, 2007 ) was a British chemist, known for the development of synthetic pyrethroids for insect control.

Elliott attended school in Tunbridge Wells and studied at the University of Southampton and King's College London. In his dissertation he deals with the synthesis of natural pyrethrins . From 1948 he was a scientist at the Rothamsted Experimental Station , where he worked on the development of synthetic pyrethroids. Long-term developments, supported by the National Research Development Corporation, were crowned with success in 1967 with the development of resmethrin and bioresmethrin and in 1974 of permethrin , cypermethrin and deltamethrin , and earned the laboratory a The Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in 1976 and 1980, respectively . By the mid-1980s, synthetic pyrethroids accounted for 20% of the global insecticide market, with pyrethroids developed by Elliott's group accounting for two-thirds.

He became deputy director in Rothamsted and retired in 1984.

In 1979 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1982 CBE . He received the Mullard Award from the Royal Society and in 1989 the Wolf Prize in Agricultural Sciences. In 1996 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

In 1969 and 1974, he spent sabbatical years doing research at the University of California, Berkeley .

He was married and had two daughters.

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