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PROF. A. R. TODD has been appointed professor of organic chemistry in the University of Cambridge as from September 1944. Prof. Todd received his early education at Allan Glen's School, Glasgow, and passed from there to the University of Glasgow where, after a brilliant academic career, he graduated in 1928 and commenced his first research under the direction of Prof. T. S. Patterson. In October of the following year he went to work with Prof. W. Borsche in the University at Frankfurt-am-Main, where as a Carnegie Research Scholar he studied the chemistry of certain bile acids, and in 1931 presented the results of this work in the form of a thesis for which he was afterwards awarded the degree of Ph.D. On his return to England, he was elected to a Senior Studentship of the Exhibition of 1851 and worked for the next three years in the research laboratory of Sir Robert Robinson at Oxford. For his researches on the synthesis of anthocyanins during this period he was awarded the degree of Ph.D. At the invitation of the late Prof. G. Barger, he moved from Oxford to Edinburgh in 1934 to take up the study of the chemical constitution of vitamin B1. The skill with which he led his team during this period and finally determined the structure of the vitamin, and of its fluorescent oxidation product, thiochrome, established his reputation as an outstanding organic chemist.
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Prof. A. R. Todd, F.R.S. Nature 153, 310 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153310a0
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