Denis Henry Desty (21 October 1923 - 18 January 1994) was a British scientist and inventor, known primarily for his work in the fields of

chromatography In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the Separation process, separation of a mixture into its components. The mixture is dissolved in a fluid solvent (gas or liquid) called the ''mobile phase'', which carries it ...

and

combustion science Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke. Combustion ...

.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 and 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 ...

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