Alan Davison
Alan Davison FRS (1936 – November 14, 2015) was a British inorganic chemist known for his work on transition metals, and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]
He earned a B.Sc. from Swansea University in 1959, and Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1962, for which he was supervised by Nobel Laureate Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson.[2] He discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite (Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi).[3]
He died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.[4]
Awards
He has been awarded the following:[2]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1967)
- Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine (1993)
- Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at the California Institute of Technology (1999)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2000)
- American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2006).
- Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award for Biotechnology and Medicine (2006) [5]
References
- ^ http://mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/davison.html
- ^ a b "Wallace H. Carothers Award Lecture - Professor Alan Davison, MIT", http://www.mitdv.org/events/archives/2006/04/wallace_h_carot_1.html
- ^ Abhik Ghosh, Letters to a Young Chemist, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, pp.134-5
- ^ Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79
- ^ http://www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/gabbayaward/past.html