Donald Holroyde Hey FRS (12 September 1904 – 21 January 1987) was a

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organic chemist. He was notable for his paper proposing that the decomposition of

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gave rise to free phenyl radicals. A photographic portrait of him is in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hey, Donald Holroyde 1904 births 1987 deaths Scientists from Swansea Organic chemists Welsh chemists Fellows of the Royal Society