Alan Davison

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]

Alan Davison
Born(1936-03-24)24 March 1936
Died14 November 2015(2015-11-14) (aged 79)
Alma mater
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisStudies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls (1962)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Wilkinson

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]

Personal life

He died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.[8][1]

In an episode of Friday Night Dinner, after mishearing his wife, Jackie, Martin Goodman asks if Alan Davison would know what he was holding.

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References
  1. 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.
  2. "Alan Davison, Professor of Chemistry". mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-02-02.
  3. Davison, Alan (1962). Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/13205.
  4. "Wallace H. Carothers Award Lecture – Professor Alan Davison, MIT", http://www.mitdv.org/events/archives/2006/04/wallace_h_carot_1.html
  5. Abhik Ghosh, Letters to a Young Chemist, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, pp.134–135
  6. "SNMMI – Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients", http://www.snmmi.org/AboutSNMMI/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=5110, accessed: 10 October 2018
  7. http://www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/gabbayaward/past.html
  8. Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79
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