Denis Henry Desty

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FRS (21 October 1923 - 18 January 1994) was a British scientist and inventor, known primarily for his work in the fields of chromatography and combustion science.http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo

'EC%2F1984%2F10'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl, Biography at the Royal Society Desty twice won the Tswett Medal for Chromatography, in 1974 and 1978, and the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

Award for Combustion Chemistry in 1982. Desty's contributions to the field of chromatography are remembered to this day by the presentation of an annual Desty Memorial Award for Innovation In Separation Science http://www.desty.org.uk/Desty_Memorial_Lecture/Desty.html , Desty Memorial Lecture

Works

* Desty, D. H. Vapour phase chromatography. ( .l.: .n. 1957.)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Desty, Denis Henry 1923 births 1994 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society British scientists British inventors