Alan Davison
| Alan Davison | |
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| Born | March 24, 1936 |
| Died | November 14, 2015 (aged 79) |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Thesis | Studies on the chemistry of transition metal carbonyls (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Wilkinson |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
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.
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.
Davison discovered the radioactive heart imaging agent Cardiolite, Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi.
Davison was awarded the following:
He died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.
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