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Alan Davison


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

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Education

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

Career and research

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

Awards and honours

Davison was awarded the following:

  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1967)
  • Paul C. Aebersold Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Science Applied to Nuclear Medicine (1993)
  • Ernest H. Swift Lectureship at the California Institute of Technology (1999)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2000)
  • American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2006)
  • Gabbay Award (2006)

    • Personal life

    He died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.

    References

    Alan Davison Wikipedia
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