Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
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Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (October 2, 1907–January 10, 1997) was the 1957 Nobel Laureate in chemistry for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
Lord Todd born in Glasgow. He was a graduate of Glasgow University (B.Sc., 1928), and received his Ph.D (Dr.Phil.nat.) in 1931 from the University of Frankfurt-on-Maine for his thesis on the chemistry of the bile acids.
He was made Sir Alexander in 1954, and Baron Todd of Trumpington in 1962.
External link
- Nobel Prize biography (http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1957/todd-bio.html)
| Preceded by: Sir Alan Hodgkin | President of the Royal Society 1975–1980 | Succeeded by: Sir Andrew Huxley |