Herbert Lindlar

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Herbert Lindlar (full name: Herbert Wilson Lindlar; born 15 March 1909 in Sheffield) is a British-Swiss chemist. He is known in particular through the development of his catalyst for hydrogenation, as the Lindlar catalyst bears his name.

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 Lindlar was in Zurich and Basel as an English Vice Consul worked.

References

http://www.baselland.ch/Newsdetail-Regierungsrat.309166+M5ebd73fc0d6.0.html

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Name	Lindlar, Herbert
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Short description	British chemist
Date of birth	15 March 1909
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