Alexander Todd - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1957
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Alexander Todd

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1957
for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
10/2/1907
place of birth
Glasgow
date of death
1/10/1997
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
89 years
educated at
  • University of Glasgow
    • academic major: chemistry
    • end time: 1928
    • start time: 1924
  • Oriel College
    • end time: 1933
    • start time: 1931
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
    • end time: 1931
  • Allan Glen's School
member of
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 12/12/1977
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1965
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1959
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1955
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/19/1942
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
position held
  • member of the House of Lords
    • start time: 4/16/1962
    • end time: 1/10/1997
  • President of the Royal Society
    • start time: 1975
    • end time: 1980
employer
  • University of Cambridge
    • end time: 1975
    • start time: 1944
  • University of Manchester
    • end time: 1944
    • start time: 1938
  • University of London
    • end time: 1938
    • start time: 1937
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Victoria University of Manchester
  • University of Hertfordshire
work location
  • London
occupation
  • politician
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • biochemist
doctoral student
  • Victor M. Clark
  • Ian Oxley Sutherland
  • Colin Bernard Reese
field of work
  • organic chemistry
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