Ian Heilbron

Heilbron studied at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow ( organic chemistry at GG Henderson ) and from 1907 to 1909 with Arthur Hantzsch at the University of Leipzig, where he received his doctorate. After that, he was briefly in the industry (British Dyestuffs Corp., which later became Imperial Chemical Industries -. , He remained their consultants to 1949 ) and from 1909 Lecturer at the Royal Technical College. In World War I he served as an officer in Greece, for which he received in 1918 the Distinguished Service Order. In 1919 he became Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Royal Technical College and 1920 Heath Harrison Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. From 1933 he was professor at the University of Manchester ( later Sir James Hall Professor ) and 1938-1949 at Imperial College. 1949 to 1958 he was Director of the Brewing Industry Research Foundation.

In 1946 he was knighted for services as adviser to the government during World War II (Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Production). During this time he was involved in the introduction of DDT ( they discovered that one of the isomers of Geigy product Cesarol an insecticide was ), which provides effective protection against malaria and yellow fever mosquito nets. And on the analysis of the structure and synthesis of penicillin, he was involved during this time.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society ( 1931). In 1945 he received the Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society ( the first non -US citizens ) and 1951 he received the Royal Medal, in particular for services in the synthesis of vitamin A and polyenes. Research on vitamins (vitamin A, D) and polyenes was in his time at Liverpool. In 1943 he received the Davy Medal.

Heilbron was editor of the Dictionary of Organic Compounds and chief editor of Thorpe 's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry.