Alan Davison
Alan Davison | |
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| Born | 24 March 1936 |
| Died | 14 November 2015 (aged 79) |
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| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
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| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Alan Davison FRS[1] (24 March 1936 — 14 November 2015) was a British inorganic chemist known for his work on transition metals, and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Education
He earned a B.Sc. from Swansea University in 1959, and Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1962,[3] supervised by Nobel Laureate Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson.[4]
Career and research
Davison discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite, Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi.[5]
Awards and honours
Davison was awarded the following:[4]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1967)[citation needed]
- Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine (1993)[6]
- Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at the California Institute of Technology (1999)[citation needed]
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2000)[1]
- American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2006)[citation needed]
- Gabbay Award (2006) [7]
Personal life
He died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.[8][1]
In popular culture
In an episode of Friday Night Dinner, after mishearing his wife, Jackie, Martin Goodman asks if Alan Davison would know what he was holding.
References
- ^ a b c d Green, Malcolm L. H.; Cummins, Christopher C.; Kronauge, James F. (2017). "Alan Davison. 24 March 1936 — 14 November 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0004. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ^ "Alan Davison, Professor of Chemistry". mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-02-02.
- ^ Davison, Alan (1962). Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/13205.
- ^ 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.134–135 [ISBN missing]
- ^ "SNMMI – Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients", http://www.snmmi.org/AboutSNMMI/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=5110, accessed: 10 October 2018
- ^ http://www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/gabbayaward/past.html
- ^ Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79
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