Education
Boldingh studied chemistry at Utrecht University. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1942 for his thesis "Synthetische onderzoekingen over het chromofore systeem van lumi-auxonstudies" on auxines in the group of Fritz Kögl.
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He worked for a short period at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium in Eindhoven, but moved to Unilever in 1944 (1944: research department of Van den Bergh & Jurgens in Rotterdam. 1946: research department in Zwijndrecht. 1955: Unilever Research Laboratory in Vlaardingen).
Between 1952 and 1967, Boldingh and H.A. Boekenoogen lead the laboratory together, but after 1967 Boldingh lead the laboratory by himself until his retirement in 1980.
From 1964 on, Boldingh served simultaneously as a professor Organic Chemistry at Utrecht University. Boldingh introduced a number of new analytic techniques (such as (gas-)chromatography, the coupling of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, Nuclear magnetic resonance and other forms of spectroscopy) in order to study complex problems in an industrial context.
Boldingh was very interested in nutrition research, and especially the role of fats in nutrition.
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Membership
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Netherlands