Robert Walker Hay FRSE FRCS (1934–1999) was a British chemist. He held the chair in Chemistry at Stirling University and later

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Life

Hay went to

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to study Chemistry, graduating BSc in 1956 and then later receiving a doctorate (PhD) in Carbohydrate Chemistry in 1959.Perspectives on Bioinorganic Chemistry
foreword by Dr David T Ritchens Hay moved to New Zealand in around 1962 to take up a post lecturing in both Organic and Inorganic Chemistry at the

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. Here, together with Neil Curtis, he formulated the Curtis-Hay ligands, a method of preparing diamines in acetone. In 1978 Hay was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were

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, William Parker, John Michael Tedder,

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and Roy Foster.

The Bob Hay Lectureship

The Bob Hay Lectureship was established by the Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2001 in Hay's memory. The lecture is given annually by a younger chemist (within 15 years of the completion of their PhD) working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hay, Robert Walker 1934 births 1999 deaths People from Stirling British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Glasgow Academics of the University of Stirling Academics of the University of St Andrews Victoria University of Wellington faculty