Background
Herbert was born on March 15, 1909, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Herbert was born on March 15, 1909, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule 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-Louisiana Roche.
With the exception of one four-year hiatus, he worked for Hoffmann-Louisiana Roche worked until retirement 1974. During these four years in Zurich and Basel Lindlar worked as an English vice consul.
