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principal technical scientist
- biography -
At a UK innovation awards ceremony held in St John's College, Cambridge, Dr Tim Leedham shakes hands with the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1992-1995, the Rt Hon Michael Heseltine MP.
Dr Tim Leedham
Dr Tim Leedham has a BSc from Bristol University and a PhD from East Anglia. His first industrial position was with the manufacture of industrial phosphates and in 1970 he co-authored a Patent on the purification of phosphoric acid which was subsequently commercialised.
He then moved into batch manufacture of inorganic reagents with a supply house and looked after the metals catalogue, receiving a practical education in the commercial and technical aspects of 72 elements and their compounds. In 1983 the business was purchased by a biotechnology company although not for the inorganic products. Consequently he was free to independently make and trade small volumes of specialised inorganics.
This business was built up over a decade-and-a-half then sold in 2000. Five years later Dr Leedham was able to start a new venture - Multivalent Ltd - to address the wider implications of coordination chemistry in a practical manner.
