Robert Walker Hay FRSE FRCS (1934–1999) was a British chemist.
[1] Hay moved to New Zealand in around 1962 to take up a post lecturing in both Organic and Inorganic Chemistry at the Victoria University of Wellington.
Here, together with Neil Curtis, he formulated the Curtis-Hay ligands, a method of preparing diamines in acetone.
His proposers were Ronald Percy Bell, William Parker, John Michael Tedder, Charles Kemball, Evelyn Ebsworth and Roy Foster.
[3] The lecture is given annually by a younger chemist (within 15 years of the completion of their PhD) working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry.