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Alan Davison
Alan Davison
Born	24 March 1936
Died	14 November 2015 (aged 79)
Alma mater	Swansea University (BSc); Imperial College London (PhD);
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society
	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]

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.^[4]

Career and research

Davison discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite, Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi.^[5]

Awards and honours

He was recipient of the following:^[4]

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1967)^[6]
Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine (1993)^[7]
Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at the California Institute of Technology (1999)^[6]
Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2000)^[1]
American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2006)^[6]
Gabbay Award (2006)^[8]
Carothers Award for outstanding contributions and advances in industrial applications of Chemistry (2006)^[6]
George Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award (2009)^[9]

Personal life

Davison died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.^[1]^[6]

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.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Green, Malcolm L. H.; Cummins, Christopher C.; Kronauge, James F. (2017). "Alan Davison. 24 March 1936 — 14 November 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: 197–213. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0004. ISSN 0080-4606.
^ "Alan Davison, Professor of Chemistry". mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012.
^ Davison, Alan (1962). Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/13205.
^ ^a ^b "Wallace H. Carothers Award Lecture – Professor Alan Davison, MIT". mitdv.org. 4 April 2006.
^ Ghosh, Abhik (2011). Letters to a Young Chemist. Wiley-Interscience. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-0-470-39043-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e McGrath, Liz (17 November 2015). "Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79". MIT News.
^ "Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients". SNMMI. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
^ "Gabbay Award Winners: 9th (2006)". brandeis.edu. Brandeis University.
^ "de Hevesy Award Recipients". SNMMI. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

[frs-1] Green, Malcolm L. H.; Cummins, Christopher C.; Kronauge, James F. (2017). "Alan Davison. 24 March 1936 — 14 November 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: 197–213. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0004. ISSN 0080-4606.

[2] "Alan Davison, Professor of Chemistry". mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012.

[3] Davison, Alan (1962). Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/13205.

[mitdv-4] "Wallace H. Carothers Award Lecture – Professor Alan Davison, MIT". mitdv.org. 4 April 2006.

[5] Ghosh, Abhik (2011). Letters to a Young Chemist. Wiley-Interscience. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-0-470-39043-6.

[MIT_obituary-6] McGrath, Liz (17 November 2015). "Alan Davison, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 79". MIT News.

[SNMMI-7] "Paul C. Aebersold Award Recipients". SNMMI. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2018.

[8] "Gabbay Award Winners: 9th (2006)". brandeis.edu. Brandeis University.

[9] "de Hevesy Award Recipients". SNMMI. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

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