Alastair Hay

Alastair Watt Macintyre Hay OBE (born April 1947)[1] is a British toxicologist, and a Professor of Environmental Toxicology; he works primarily in the fields of chemical warfare and biological warfare (CBW).[2]

Alastair Hay

OBE
Born
Alastair Watt Macintyre Hay

1947 (age 72–73)
Alma materRoyal Holloway, University of London (PhD)
AwardsOPCW–The Hague Award (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsChemical warfare
Biological warfare
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
ThesisFructose metabolism in the liver (1973)
Websitemedhealth.leeds.ac.uk/profile/522/905/alastair_w_m__hay

Education

Hay gained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1969, in London, though had started with Maths and Chemistry, and a PhD in Biochemistry in 1973 for research on the metabolism of fructose (fructolysis) in the liver.[3]

Career and research

Hay started his career at the chemical pathology department at the University of Leeds. He became Professor of Environmental Toxicology.[4]

He provided assistance to the forming of the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993, becoming international law in 1997. He works in the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine. In 1995 he worked with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). In 2004 he helped prepare the World Health Organization's (WHO) manual: Public health response to biological and chemical weapons.[5]

Hay is an active advocate for promoting ethics to new generations of scientists,[6] and he has headed a group of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for educational materials on chemical warfare,[7] which led to the creation of an online resource on "Multiple Uses of Chemicals".[8] He has also represented the IUPAC for preparation of the Biological Weapons Convention (also known as the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention).

Publications
  • No fire, no thunder : the threat of chemical and biological weapons, Pluto Press, 1984, ISBN 0861047389
  • A Magic Sword or a Big Itch: An Historical Look at the United States Biological Weapons Programme, Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 1999
  • Simulants, Stimulants and Diseases: The Evolution of the United States Biological Warfare Programme, 1945–60, Medicine, Conflict and Survival, July 1999

Awards and honours

He was awarded the 2015 OPCW-The Hague Award by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.[9][10] Hay was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours for services to occupational health.[11]

gollark: Interesting view.
gollark: Not everyone actually acts ethically, so clearly not.
gollark: Very possibly.
gollark: If it's much smarter than you, you aren't going to be able to meaningfully monitor it.
gollark: I mean, it sort of kind of does.

References
  1. "Alastair Watt Macintyre HAY". companieshouse.gov.uk. London: Companies House.
  2. Al-Khalili, Jim (2018). "The Life Scientific, Banning chemical weapons with Alastair Hay". bbc.co.uk. BBC.
  3. Hay, Alastair Watt MacIntyre (1973). Fructose metabolism in the liver. royalholloway.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. ISBN 9781339614472. OCLC 1065396333. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.704241.
  4. "Alastair Hay: It is vital America discloses what weapons were deployed".
  5. "World Health Organization".
  6. Kingston, Peter (11 November 2008). "Interview: Alastair Hay, weapon of mass instruction". theguardian.com. The Guardian.
  7. "IUPAC Latest News". IUPAC - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
  8. "Multiple Uses of Chemicals". multiple.kcvs.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  9. "OPCW-The Hague Award - Past Winners". Archived from the original on 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
  10. OPCW (19 July 2016). "Alastair Hay's Acceptance Speech at the 2015 OPCW-The Hague Award" – via YouTube.
  11. Anon (2003) "No. 56963". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 2003-06-14. p. 11.
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