Person
Alexander Todd
1907 – 1997 · aged 90
British biochemist and Nobel laureate (1907-1997)
- Born
- 2 Oct 1907 · Glasgow
- Died
- 10 Jan 1997 · Cambridge
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Showing 103 years
- 2 Oct 1907BornBorn in Glasgow
- 1936AwardMeldola Medal and Prize
- 1940AwardTilden Prize
- 1942AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1948AwardLavoisier Medal
- 1949AwardDavy Medal
- 1954AwardKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- 1954AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
- 1955AwardRoyal Medal
- 1957AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1959AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
- 1962AwardLife peer
- 1962 – 1997RoleMember of the House of Lords
- 1962AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg
- 1975 – 1980RolePresident of the Royal Society
- 10 Jan 1997DiedDied in Cambridge
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1907 – 1997).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957.
Text from the Wikipedia article Alec Todd, CC BY-SA 4.0
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