Person

Lamont, F.

Occupation
Chemical engineer

Summary

F. Lamont was one of a team of scientists and engineers who built both a pilot plant and the full scale plant for the production of sulphamerazine in the early 1940s. He also took part in the design of a plant to synthesise phenothiazine from diphenylamine.

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  • Glenn, Joseph Robert Archibald (Archibald) (1911 - )

    During the Second World War, Archibald Glenn, F. Lamont, and Len Weickhardt successfully built a plant for manufacturing sulphamerazine, a drug that was effective against the malignant form of Malaria.

  • Hamer, Alan William (1917 - 2012)

    Together, Alan Hamer, F. Lamont and Ian Robinson helped to successfully design and construct ICIANZ's plant for synthesising phenothiazine from diphenylamine.

  • Robinson, Ian J. (1910 - 1995)

    Together, Alan Hamer, F. Lamont and Ian Robinson helped to successfully design and construct ICIANZ's plant for synthesising phenothiazine from diphenylamine.

  • Weickhardt, Leonard William (Len) (1908 - 2000)

    During the Second World War, Archibald Glenn, F. Lamont, and Len Weickhardt successfully built a plant for manufacturing sulphamerazine, a drug that was effective against the malignant form of Malaria.

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