Reginald Patrick Linstead
Sir Reginald Patrick Linstead , called Patrick, (born August 28, 1902 in London , † September 22, 1966 ibid) was an English chemist .
Life
Linstead studied chemistry from 1920 at Imperial College London , where he received his doctorate in 1926 under George Armand Robert Kon and was then assistant. From 1928 to 1929 he worked for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and then again at Imperial College. In 1930 he received a D.Sc. from the University of London . In 1938 he became professor of chemistry at the University of Sheffield and in 1939 professor of organic chemistry at Harvard University . In 1942 he was back in England as Deputy Research Director at the Ministry of Supply , doing research on explosives and metals. In 1945 he became director of the Chemical Research Laboratory in Teddington. In 1949 he became a professor of organic chemistry at Imperial College London, whose rector he became.
Linstead was a pioneer in researching phthalocyanine dyes. The starting point was a batch from the phthalimide production of an ICI plant in Scotland , in which a dark blue substance had formed on contact with iron, which was handed over to Imperial College for investigation. Linstead was able to reproduce this in the laboratory and suspected a structure similar to porphyrin (1933), which was confirmed by X-ray structure studies .
In 1954 he turned to chlorophyll and was able to supplement Hans Fischer's structural analysis .
From 1940 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1959 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . The Linstead Hall at Imperial College was named in his honor.
Fonts
- with Joceyln Field Thorp, JC Cain: The Synthetic Dyestuffs and the intermediate products from which they are derived , London: Griffin, 1933
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3 , p. 274.
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Reginald Patrick Linstead at academictree.org, accessed on May 26, 2018.
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SURNAME | Linstead, Reginald Patrick |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1966 |
Place of death | London |