Jan Boldingh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan Boldingh

Dutch chcemist

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1915

Place of Birth: Bogor, Indonesia

Date of Death: 04-Aug-2003

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Jan Boldingh

  • Jan Boldingh (3 January 1915, Buitenzorg – 4 August 2003, Schiedam) was a noted Dutch chemist. Boldingh studied chemistry at Utrecht University.
  • He received a PhD in 1942 for his thesis 'Synthetische onderzoekingen over het chromofore systeem van lumi-auxonstudies' on auxines in the group of Fritz Kögl.
  • 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, NMR 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.
  • He stimulated the studies by David A.
  • van Dorp concerning the role of unsaturated fatty acids that served as a precursor to prostaglandins (especially arachidonic acid and prostaglandin E2), in which the Unilever Laboratory collaborated intensively with Sune K.
  • Bergström, who would receive a Nobel prize in 1982 for his studies in this field. In 1964 Boldingh became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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