Keith James Laidler (January 3, 1916 – August 26, 2003), born in England, was notable as a pioneer in chemical kinetics and authority on the physical chemistry of enzymes.
[1] He received his BA (1934) and MA (1938) degrees from Oxford University as a student of Trinity College.
He completed his PhD in 1940 from Princeton University,[2] with a thesis entitled: The Kinetics of Reactions in Condensed and Heterogeneous Systems, under Henry Eyring.
[6] As an independent researcher in Ottawa he worked increasingly on enzymes, with both theoretical[7] and experimental studies.
[8] He wrote several books of chemistry, and among these The Chemical Kinetics of Enzyme Action (1958) was for more than ten years by far the most important source of information on the subject.