Died 1997-01-10.
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Alexander Todd
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957.
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science · British biochemist (1907–1997) · chemist · politician · biochemist · university teacher · physicist · also Alexander Todd, Alec Todd, Sir Alexander Robertus Todd, Alexander Robert Todd, Baron Todd, Alexander Robertus Todd, Alexander Todd, Baron Todd
Born 2 October 1907 · Died 10 January 1997 · Q157242
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1997· 1 entry
1986· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Hong Kong (1986).
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1981· 1 entry
Todd became a founding member of the World Cultural Council
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1978· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1978).
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1975· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1975–1980).
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1970· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1970).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1968).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Robert Robinson Award (1966).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
And a visiting professor at Hatfield Polytechnic (1978–1986)
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1963· 2 entries
Awarded Longstaff Prize (1963).
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Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1963).
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded life peer (1962).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1962).
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Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1962–1997).
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1959).
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1957).
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1955· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1955).
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Helped elucidate the structure of vitamin B12, although the final formula and definite structure was determined by Dorothy Hodgkin and her team, and later worked on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B1 and vitami
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1954· 4 entries
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1954).
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1954).
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Was elevated as a Life Peer on 16 April 1962, being created Baron Todd of Trumpington in the County of Cambridge
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And a Hitchcock Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, in 1957
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1949· 2 entries
Won Davy Medal (1949).
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Synthesised adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)
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1948· 1 entry
Won Lavoisier Medal (1948).
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1944· 1 entry
Was appointed to the 1702 Chair of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, which he held until his retirement in 1971
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1942· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1942).
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A member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1955, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957, and the American Philosophical Society in 1965
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Tilden Prize (1940).
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1938· 2 entries
Where he began working on nucleosides, compounds that form the structural units of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA)
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Alexander Todd spent six months as a visiting professor at California Institute of Technology, eventually declining an offer of faculty position
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1937· 1 entry
Todd married Alison Sarah Dale (d
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1936· 1 entry
Won Meldola Medal and Prize (1936).
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1933· 1 entry
Studied at Oriel College (1931–1933).
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1931· 2 entries
For his thesis on the chemistry of the bile acids
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Studied at Goethe University Frankfurt (1931).
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1928· 1 entry
Studied at University of Glasgow (1924–1928).
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-10-02.
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