Allan Hay

Allan Stuart Hay FRS (July 23, 1929 – August 14, 2017) was a Canadian chemist, and Tomlinson Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at McGill University. He is best known for his synthesization of Polyphenylene Oxide, leading to the development of Noryl and various other plastics.

Career Hay graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in 1950 and an M.Sc. in 1952, and from the University of Illinois Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1955.

In 1987, after retiring from GE, he became a research professor of polymer chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Hay held the GE/NSERC Chair of Polymer Chemistry from 1987 to 1995, and the Tomlinson Chair in Chemistry from 1997 to 2014. He retired from McGill in 2014, returning to Niskayuna, New York.