Gordon Hobday boots

Posted on April 16th, 2007 in Uncategorized by admin

Sir Gordon Ivan Hobday (born 1916) is a distinguished scientist, who worked on penicillin with Alexander Fleming, and is noted especially for his role as director of the Boots research team that developed ibuprofen. He later went on to become Chairman of Boots.

He was the 4th Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, of which university he was a graduate. He was Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire 1983–1991.

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