Sir (Reginald) Patrick Linstead CBE, DSc, HonDSc, DIC, HonFCGI, HonMIMM, FRS (28 August 1902, London – 22 September 1966, London (heart attack)) was an English chemist.[1]
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Patrick Linstead attended City of London School and Imperial College London.
In 1938, Linstead was appointed Firth Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. The following year, he was appointed professor of organic chemistry at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
In World War II, he worked on military research, studying explosives and metals.
After several further academic appointments, he later became the Rector of Imperial College.[2]
Linstead was a pioneer in the chemistry of phthalocyanine dyes[3] and studied allylic tautomerism.
Linstead Hall at Imperial College is named in his honour.[4] He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1940.[5] He was also a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted in 1959.
In 1930, Linstead married Aileen Edith Ellis Rowland, daughter of a fellow researcher at Imperial College. Aileen died in 1938 giving birth to the couple's only daughter. Linstead remarried in 1942 to Marjorie Walters of Aberdare, England. She held a doctorate from Oxford University, and later took a position as principal of an education college at Oxford.
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| Preceded by Roderic Hill |
Rector of Imperial College London 1954–1966 |
Succeeded by Owen Saunders |