Alexander George Ogston

Alexander George Ogston FAA FRS[1] (30 January 1911 29 June 1996) was a biochemist who specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems.[2] He was particularly interested in connective tissue and the use of physico-chemical methods to study the size, weight and structure of molecules. He made the "three-point attachment" contribution to stereochemistry. His grandfather was Sir Alexander Ogston, a Scottish surgeon.[2]

Alexander George Ogston
Born(1911-01-30)30 January 1911
Bombay, British India
Died29 June 1996(1996-06-29) (aged 85)
Known forThree-point attachment theory
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Wicksteed
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Davy Medal (1986)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsAustralian National University
Oxford
Doctoral advisorRonald Percy Bell

Life

Ogston was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. Apart from a period as Freedom Research Fellow at the London Hospital, he spent most of his career at Oxford, being appointed Demonstrator (1938) and Reader (1955) in Biochemistry, and Fellow and Tutor in Physical Chemistry at Balliol (1937). In 1959 he took up an appointment as Professor of Physical Biochemistry at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, Canberra, where he remained until 1970, when he returned to Oxford as President of Trinity College. On his retirement in 1978, he held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia and the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU. Ogston was elected FRS in 1955,[1] and was awarded the Davy Medal in 1986.

References

  1. Smithies, O. (1999). "Alexander George Ogston. 30 January 1911 29 June 1996: Elected F.R.S. 1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 45: 349. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0024. JSTOR 770281.
  2. Smithies, O. "Alexander George Ogston, 1911-1996". Biographical memoirs. Australian Academy of Science. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington
President of Trinity College, Oxford
19701978
Succeeded by
Anthony Quinton


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