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Alan Davison
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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]
Key Information
Education
[edit]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
[edit]Davison discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite, Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi.[5]
Awards and honours
[edit]He was recipient of the following:[4]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1967)[6]
- Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine (1993)[7]
- Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at the California Institute of Technology (1999)[6]
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2000)[1]
- American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2006)[6]
- Gabbay Award (2006)[8]
- Carothers Award for outstanding contributions and advances in industrial applications of Chemistry (2006)[6]
- George Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award (2009)[9]
Personal life
[edit]In popular culture
[edit]In an episode of Friday Night Dinner, family patriarch and chemistry enthusiast Martin Goodman mishears the name "Alison" as "Alan Davison".[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ 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. 63: 197–213. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0004. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ^ "Alan Davison, Professor of Chemistry". mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012.
- ^ 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". mitdv.org. 4 April 2006.
- ^ Ghosh, Abhik (2011). Letters to a Young Chemist. Wiley-Interscience. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-0-470-39043-6.
- ^ a b c d e McGrath, Liz (17 November 2015). "Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79". MIT News.
- ^ "Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients". SNMMI. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
- ^ "Gabbay Award Winners: 9th (2006)". brandeis.edu. Brandeis University.
- ^ "de Hevesy Award Recipients". SNMMI. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
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