He was knighted as Sir Alexander Todd in 1954 for distinguished service to the government and was given a life peerage and named Lord Todd, Baron Todd of Trumpington in 1962.
and in 1928 left for the University of Frankfurt-am-Main, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1931 for his work on bile acids with W. Borsche. NobelPrize.org: Lord Todd – Biographical – Nobel Media AB 2019, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1957/todd/biographical/
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd, PC, OM, FRS (2 October 1907 ndash; 10 January 1997) was a Scottish biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the 1957 Nobel Prize At that time, there was a lot of uncertainty about the structure of some known nucleosides and nucleotides. Letter from Lord Todd to Paul Bartlett 1979-Oct-31 Download.
He studied at Allan Glen’s School and then joined the University of Glasgow.
He continued with this line of research even after his appointment to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Cambridge University in 1944. There he earned a B.S.
Todd earned his second doctorate degree at Oxford.When George Barger, professor of medical chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, sought Robinson’s advice for carrying out research on Vitamin B1, Robinson suggested Todd’s name because of his interest in working on natural products and the knowledge of microchemical techniques that he had acquired in Germany.
He became Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde in 1975, and a visiting professor at Hatfield Polytechnic (1978–1986).
He and his team ultimately succeeded in discovering the structure of nucleosides and in 1949, accomplished the challenging feat of synthesising adenosine triphosphate (ATP). By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Download selected image Small JPG800 x 1117px — 127 KB Medium JPG1200 x 1675px — 242 KB Large JPG2880 x 4019px — 1.05 MB Full-sized JPG3568 x 4979px — 1.53 MB Original fileTIFF — 3568 x 4979px — 50.9 MB. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.After receiving doctorates from the universities of Todd also worked on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B He received a PhD from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in 1931 for his thesis on the chemistry of the bile acids.
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Todd was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and, after studying at Oriel College, Oxford, he gained another doctorate in 1933.After graduating from the University of Oxford, Todd held posts with the Lister Institute, the University of Edinburgh and the University of London, where he was appointed Reader in Biochemistry.Todd became the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Laboratories of the University of Manchester in 1938, where he began working on nucleosides, compounds that form the structural units of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA).In 1944, he was appointed to the 1702 Chair of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, which he held until his retirement in 1971.He also served as chairman of the Government of the United Kingdom's advisory committee on scientific policy from 1952 to 1964.Todd was elected a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1944 and was Master from 1963 to 1978. Glasgow, city, west-central Scotland.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd OM PRS FRSE (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a Scottish biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry . "A proposed structure for the nucleic acids."
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Young Todd was educated at the Allan Glen School and Glasgow University. They got married in 1937, and soon afterwards Todd accepted the position of lecturer in biochemistry at the Lister Institute in London.Todd had begun researching the chemistry of Vitamin E towards the end of his stint in Edinburgh.