Alan Davison Explained

Birth Date:	24 March 1936
Workplaces:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Title:	Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls
Thesis Url:	http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.602048
Thesis Year:	1962
Doctoral Advisor:	Geoffrey Wilkinson
Awards:	Fellow of the Royal Society
Spouses:	)-->
Partners:	)-->

Alan Davison FRS^[1] (24 March 1936 — 14 November 2015) was a British inorganic chemist known for his work on transition metals, and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2]

Education

He earned a B.Sc. from Swansea University in 1959, and Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1962,^[3] supervised by Nobel Laureate Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson.

Career and research

Davison discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite, Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi.^[4]

Awards and honours

He was recipient of the following:^[5]

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1967)
• Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine (1993)^[6]
• Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at the California Institute of Technology (1999)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2000)^[1]
• American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2006)
• Gabbay Award (2006)^[7]
• Carothers Award for outstanding contributions and advances in industrial applications of Chemistry (2006)
• George Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award (2009)^[8]

Personal life

Davison died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.^{[1] [9]}

In popular culture

In an episode of Friday Night Dinner, after mishearing his wife, Jackie, Martin Goodman asks if Alan Davison would know what he was holding.

Notes and References

1. Green. Malcolm L. H.. Malcolm Green (chemist). Cummins. Christopher C.. Kronauge. James F.. Alan Davison. 24 March 1936 — 14 November 2015. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2017. 63. 197–213. 0080-4606. 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0004. free.
2. Web site: Alan Davison, Professor of Chemistry . mit.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120202120128/http://mit.edu/chemistry/www/faculty/davison.html . 2012-02-02 .
3. PhD. Imperial College London. Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls. Alan. Davison. 1962. ethos.bl.uk. 10044/1/13205.
4. Book: Ghosh, Abhik . Letters to a Young Chemist . Wiley-Interscience . 2011 . 134–135 . 978-0-470-39043-6.
5. Web site: Wallace H. Carothers Award Lecture – Professor Alan Davison, MIT . 4 April 2006 . mitdv.org.
6. Web site: . Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924042922/http://www.snmmi.org/AboutSNMMI/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=5110 . 24 September 2015 . 10 October 2018.
7. Web site: Gabbay Award Winners: 9th (2006) . . brandeis.edu.
8. Web site: . de Hevesy Award Recipients . 7 November 2023.
9. Web site: Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79 . MIT News . 17 November 2015 . McGrath . Liz.