Victor Gold FRS FRSC[1] (29 June 1922 – 29 September 1985) was a chemist who served on the faculty of King's College, London.
By the autumn of 1939, Gold had gained a place at University College (transferred to King’s and Bristol, because of the war) to study chemistry, but the following summer all Austrian and German aliens were interned, mostly in Douglas, Isle of Man.
In the camp Gold met Hans Pelzer, one of the founders of transition state theory, who taught Victor some quantum mechanics.
After a poor start he gained a first-class honours degree, largely thanks to the encouragement of Sir Christopher Ingold.
[6] He initiated the development of the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, which is published with a gold-colored cover and is known as the "Gold Book" in recognition of his work as its first author and compiler.