David Templeton Gibson

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(1899–1985) was a British chemist who spent his entire career at the

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Life

He was born in

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on 23 November 1899, the son of Thomas Henry Gibson, a barrister, and his wife, Jessie Templeton. He attended Bangor Grammar School then his family moved to

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where he attended

Ayr Academy Ayr Academy (Scottish Gaelic: ''Acadamaidh Inbhir Àir'') is a non-denominational secondary school situated within the Craigie Estate area at University Avenue in Ayr, South Ayrshire. It is a comprehensive school for children of ages 11–18 fro ...

from 1910-1917. He then returned to Ireland to study Science at the

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graduating MSc in 1921. He then went to the

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for postgraduate studies gaining his first doctorate (PhD) in 1923. He spent his entire career thereafter at

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beginning as an Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry in 1924. The

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awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1932 and he was then raised to a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. In 1949 he became a Senior Lecturer in Medical Chemistry. In the

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he advised the

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on gas warfare. In 1956 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

John Monteath Robertson John Monteath Robertson FRS FRSE PCS CBE LLD (1900–1989) was a 20th-century Scottish chemist and crystallographer. He was the recipient of the Davy Medal in 1960 and president of the Chemical Society from 1962 to 1964. Life He was bor ...

Robert Campbell Garry Robert Campbell Garry DSc (1933) OBE FRSE LLD (1900–1993) was a British physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow. During World War II, as an expert on human physiology, he advised on ...

James Norman Davidson James Norman Davidson CBE PRSE FRS (5 March 1911 – 11 September 1972) was a British biochemist, pioneer molecular biologist and textbook author. The Davidson Building at the University of Glasgow is named for him. Life He was the only child ...

and

Philip Ivor Dee Philip Ivor Dee CBE FRS FRSE (8 April 1904, Stroud – 17 April 1983, Glasgow) was a British nuclear physicist. He was responsible for the development of airborne radar during the Second World War. Glasgow University named the Philip Ivor Dee M ...

. He retired in 1965. He died on 6 March 1985.

Family

In 1934 he married Elizabeth Mary Nisbet Wilson.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gibson, David Templeton 1899 births 1985 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scientists from Northern Ireland Academics of the University of Glasgow British chemists People educated at Ayr Academy People educated at Bangor Grammar School Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Alumni of the University of London