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A natural scientist with a passion for history: Graham Holmwood

In search of new chemicals

Healthy barley: the inventor of Folicur® fungicide,
Dr. Graham Holmwood, in a Bayer experimental field.

Creative chemistry: Dr. Graham Holmwood with his colleagues Dr. Christian Funke (left) and Stefan Hahn (right).

Graham Holmwood is the scientific father of the successful Bayer fungicide Folicur®. It was pure chance that brought this Englishman to Germany 35 years ago. There was a certain romantic interest, but he was also encouraged to travel by the economic crisis in the UK at the time. He has since synthesized over 10,500 substances and played a role in the development of Canesten® and Bayleton®. For him, chemistry has less to do with smelly, noisy laboratories and white coats; he perceives it as a broad and fascinating field.

A passion for chemical research

But Holmwood is not slowing down after all these successes. He’s still working on new chemistry. What he likes about Germany is the spontaneous, direct people – something that made an impression on him during his first visit – and its history. Read more about the genial chemist in our article.