Alexander Todd
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1957for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes
- Citizenship
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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
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- educated at
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- 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
- University of Glasgow
- member of
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- 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
- Japan Academy
- position held
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- 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
- member of the House of Lords
- employer
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- 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
- University of Cambridge
- work location
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- London
- occupation
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- politician
- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- biochemist
- doctoral student
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- Victor M. Clark
- Ian Oxley Sutherland
- Colin Bernard Reese
- field of work
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- organic chemistry