Alan Davison

Alan Davison
Born (1936-03-24)March 24, 1936
Died November 14, 2015(2015-11-14) (aged 79)
Alma mater
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls (1962)
Doctoral advisor Geoffrey Wilkinson

Alan Davison FRS[1] (March 24 1936 – November 14, 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]

Personal life

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 "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.134-5
  6. ↑ "SNMMI - Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients", http://www.snmmi.org/AboutSNMMI/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=5110, accessed: Oct. 10, 2018
  7. ↑ http://www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/gabbayaward/past.html
  8. ↑ Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79
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