Herbert Lindlar

Herbert Lindlar Lindlar Herbert Wilson ( born March 15 1909 in Sheffield ) is a British- Swiss chemist. He is known especially by the developed catalyst for hydrogenation of him that bears his name as a Lindlar catalyst.

Biography

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