Sir Gordon Ivan Hobday (1 February 1916 – 27 May 2015)[1] was a British scientist who worked on penicillin with Alexander Fleming and is noted for his role as director of the Boots research team that developed ibuprofen.
His father, Alexander Thomas Hobday was a lace card punch operator and his mother was Frances Cassandra, née Meads.
He attended Long Eaton Grammar School as a child and then studied Chemistry at University College, Nottingham.
In the 1970s, it became an over-the-counter pain killer and the World Health Organization put it on its list of "essential medicines".
By 1973, he had become chairman, where he attempted a merger with Glaxo and to buy House of Fraser, but the Monopolies Commission stopped both.