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Donald Holroyde Hey

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Nationality
  
United Kingdom

Name
  
Donald Hey


Died
  
January 21, 1987

Fields
  
Chemistry

Born
  
12 September 1904 (
1904-09-12
)
Swansea, Wales

Books
  
The Royal Society of Chemistry: The First 150 Years

Donald Holroyde Hey FRS (12 September 1904 – 21 January 1987) was a Welsh organic chemist. He was notable for his paper proposing that the decomposition of benzoyl peroxide gave rise to free phenyl radicals.

A photographic portrait of him is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

References

Donald Holroyde Hey Wikipedia