Robert Haszeldine

Robert Neville Haszeldine FRS, FRSC (3 May 1925 – 13 October 2016) was a British chemist. He is best known for his contributions to organofluorine chemistry, such as the discovery/invention of triflic acid.^[1]

Life

He was educated at Stockport Grammar School and the University of Birmingham. Moving to the University of Cambridge he rose to assistant director of Research,^[2] before becoming Professor of Chemistry and Principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.^[3]

He had a two-acre garden in Great Langdale, Cumbria, which was regularly opened to the public under the National Garden Scheme.^[4][5]

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968.^[6]

He died on 13 October 2016 at the age of 91.^[7]

References

1. Ronald Eric Banks (2000). Fluorine chemistry at the millennium: fascinated by fluorine. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-043405-6.
2. Ronald Eric Banks (2000). Fluorine chemistry at the millennium: fascinated by fluorine. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-043405-6.
3. "Fellows 1900–1999 | Queens' College".
4. Copt Howe
5. "Hail the glory of an English country garden". The Independent. London. 27 March 2005.
6. Munn, R. W.; Taylor, D. R. (2019). "Robert Neville Haszeldine. 3 May 1925—13 October 2016". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 66: 243–265. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0035.
7. Robert Haszeldine (OS 1942) Stockport Grammar school