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Alexander Todd
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Alexander Todd

Politician · born October 2, 1907 · died 1997

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Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. 34Received the Fellow of the Royal SocietyMarch 19, 1942
  2. ~42Received the Davy Medal1949
  3. ~48Received the Royal Medal1955
  4. ~50Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1957
  5. ~63Received the Copley Medal1970
  6. ~71Received the Lomonosov Gold Medal1978

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