Morgan, Sir

Morgan, Sir G. T. 44 A Survey of Modern Inorganic Chemistry. Royal Institute of Chemistry. 1933. 

Morgan, Sir Gilbert T., and Pratt, David D. (1938). British Chemical Industry Its Rise and Development. London Edward Arnold Co. 

These are thermoset polymers made from phenol or, less commonly, phenolic-type compounds such as the cresols, xylenols, and resorcinol, together with formaldehyde. They had been known for some time - G.T (later Sir Gilbert) Morgan discovered them in the early 1890s when attempting (unsuccessfully) to make artificial dyestuffs by reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. But this knowledge had not been exploited before 1907, the year in which Leo... 

David Morgan is a member of the Chemical Ecology Group at Keele University. He was bom in Newfoundland and had his university education there, at Dalhousie University and University of King s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and at Oxford. His doctorate thesis was on the lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He later worked at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, and for Shell Chemical Company and Shell Research under the direction of Sir Robert Robinson, O.M., Nobel Laureate. From 1966 he has been at Keele in Staffordshire as lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, and professor. He discovered the natural pesticide azadirachtin and collaborated with S. V. Ley for its final structure elucidation. He is the author of over 300 papers and reviews, mostly on insect chemistry, editor, and contributor to several volumes and author of the book Biosynthesis in Insects. ... 

Sir Gilbert Morgan discovered phenol-formaldehyde polymers in the early 1890s while attempting to make artificial dyestuffs, but it was Leo Baekeland in the USA that exploited the reaction and obtained a patent for a commercial synthetic polymer in 1907. Phenol and formaldehyde were reacted in alkaline conditions with loss of water which formed an intermediate solid or liquid... 

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