Background
TODD, Alexander Robertus Todd was born on October 2, 1907 in Glasgow. Son of Alexander Todd, Justice of the Peace
TODD, Alexander Robertus Todd was born on October 2, 1907 in Glasgow. Son of Alexander Todd, Justice of the Peace
Glasgow, Frankfurtam-Main and Oxford Universities.
Assistant in Medical Chemistry 1934-1935, Beit Memorial Research Fellow 1935-1936, Edinburgh University. Professor, of Chemistry and Director Chemical Laboratories Manchester University 1938-1944. Professor Organic Chemistry Cambridge University 1944-1971, Master, Christ’s College 1963-1978.
Manager Trustee, Nuffield Foundation 1950-1973, Chairman 1973-1979.
Chairman Advisory Council on Scientific Policy 1952-1964. President Chemical Society 1960-1962, 1981-1982.
Master, Salters’ Company 1961-1962. Chancellor, University of Strathclyde 1965-1991.
Chairman Royal Commission, on Medical Education 1965-1968.
Chairman Governors United Cambridgeshire. Hospitals 1969-1974; President Royal Society 1975-1980. Chairman Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong ^SOSO, President since 1989.
Trustee, Ciba Foundation 1963-1982.
Staff Lister Institute Preventive Medicine, London 1936-1938. National Academy, of Sciences. Numerous institutions and academic of sciences.
(autobiog.).
Married Alison Sarah Dale in 1937 (deceased in 1987).