Alan Davison FRS (24 March 1936 — 14 November 2015) was a British inorganic chemist known for his work on transition metals, and a professor at

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Education

He earned a B.Sc. from

Swansea University Swansea University ( cy, Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public university, public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. ...

in 1959, and Ph.D. from

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in 1962, supervised by Nobel Laureate Sir

Geoffrey Wilkinson Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Education and early life Wilkinson was born at Springside, Todm ...

Career and research

Davison discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite,

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Awards and honours

Davison was awarded the following:"Wallace H. Carothers Award Lecture – Professor Alan Davison, MIT", http://www.mitdv.org/events/archives/2006/04/wallace_h_carot_1.html * Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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(1967) * Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine (1993)"SNMMI – Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients", http://www.snmmi.org/AboutSNMMI/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=5110, accessed: 10 October 2018 * Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at the

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(1999) * Fellow of the

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of London (2000) *

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Award for Creative Invention (2006) *

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(2006)

Personal life

He died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79
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In popular culture

In an episode of

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, after mishearing his wife, Jackie, Martin Goodman asks if Alan Davison would know what he was holding.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Davison, Alan 1936 births 2015 deaths British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Alumni of Swansea University Alumni of Imperial College London