Education
Patrick Linstead attended City of London School and
Patrick Linstead attended City of London School and
In 1938, Linstead was appointed Firth Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. The following year, he was appointed professor of organic chemistry at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. In World World War II, he worked on military research, studying explosives and metals. After several further academic appointments, he later became the Rector of Imperial College.
Linstead was a pioneer in the chemistry of phthalocyanine dyes and studied allylic tautomerism.
Linstead Hall at Imperial College is named in his honour. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1940.
He was also a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) and was knighted in 1959.
Royal Society.