Herbert Lindlar

Herbert Lindlar (Herbert Wilson Lindlar, 15 March 1909, Sheffield, England – 27 June 2009) was a British-Swiss chemist. He is known in particular through the development of his catalyst for hydrogenation, as the Lindlar catalyst bears his name.

Lindlar arrived with his family in 1919 in Switzerland. He studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich and the University of Bern and in 1939 with a thesis "about the behavior of dicarboxylic acids in the Ureidbildung doctorate". He then joined the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche. With the exception of one four-year hiatus, he worked for Hoffmann-La Roche worked until retirement 1974. During these four years in Zurich and Basel Lindlar worked as an English vice consul.

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