Alan Davison
Alan Davison FRS was a British inorganic chemist known for his work on transition metals, and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.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 sestamibi.Awards and honours
Davison was awarded the following:
He died after a long illness on 14 November 2015 at the age of 79.In an episode of Friday Night Dinner, after mishearing his wife, Jackie, Martin Goodman asks if Alan Davison would know what he was holding.
