biography
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Todd (of Trumpington), Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron
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| lived:
| (1907–97)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow, Frankfurt, and Oxford universities, and became professor at Manchester (1938–44) and Cambridge (1944–71). He was Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (1963–78), and the first chancellor of the new University of Strathclyde (1965–91). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957 for his research on vitamins B1 and E. Knighted in 1954, he was made a life peer in 1962. |
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