Peter Doyle

Peter Doyle OBE (20 December 1921 – 31 December 2004) was a British chemist.

Career Doyle obtained his degree from the University of London in 1944. In 1952 he obtained a position at Beecham Laboratories in Betchworth, and became Director of Research at Beecham Pharmaceuticals in 1962. A Royal Society of Chemistry blue plaque now marks this discovery.

Private life Frank Peter Doyle and Joan Edith English married in Ilford in 1946 and had three children: Colin Peter (1949), Robert Allan (1951) and Hilary Joan (1960).

Joan Edith Doyle died on 14 June 2005.