Alan Davison | |
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Born | 24 March 1936 |
Died | 14 November 2015 | (aged 79)
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Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Wilkinson |
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]
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.[4]
Davison discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite, Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi.[5]
He was recipient of the following:[4]
Davison died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.[1][6]
In an episode of Friday Night Dinner, after mishearing his wife, Jackie, Martin Goodman asks if Alan Davison would know what he was holding.[citation needed]