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PROF. D. H. HEY who has been appointed to succeed Prof. Allmand, was born in 1904 and, after eight years at Magdalen College School, Oxford, spent the period 1923-28 as a student at University College, Swansea. In the latter year, he joined the staff of the Chemistry Department of the University of Manchester, where he stayed for ten years. During 1939-41 he taught at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and then until 1945 he was engaged in industrial research. Since 1945 Prof. Hey has held the second chair of chemistry at King's College, London. His degrees include those of M.Sc. (Wales), Ph.D. (London) and D.Sc. (Manchester). He has been an honorary secretary of the Chemical Society since 1946, and is a member of the Chemical Council. He has also served on the council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. Prof. Hey's numerous publications have appeared chiefly in the Journal of the Chemical Society. Many of them deal with the chemistry of diphenyl and triphenyl derivatives, and with the aryl pyridines. Prof. Hey has also been interested in chemotherapy. In particular, he is well known for his theory of the important part played, in organic reactions in liquid media, by free radicals of short life, a theory which arose out of his own work on diazo-compounds and peroxides.
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Prof. D. H. Hey. Nature 164, 989 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164989b0
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