Herbert Lindlar

Herbert Lindlar (Herbert Wilson Lindlar, 15 March 1909, Sheffield, England – 27 June 2009) was a British-Swiss chemist. He is known in particular through the development of his catalyst for hydrogenation, as the Lindlar catalyst bears his name.[1]

Biography

Lindlar arrived with his family in 1919 in Switzerland. He studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich and the University of Bern and in 1939 with a thesis "about the behavior of dicarboxylic acids in the Ureidbildung doctorate". He then joined the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche. With the exception of one four-year hiatus, he worked for Hoffmann-La Roche worked until retirement 1974. During these four years in Zurich and Basel Lindlar worked as an English vice consul.

References

  1. ↑ Senning, Alexander. Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology: The Whys and Whences of Chemical Nomenclature and Terminology, Elsiever, 2006, p. 231.

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