Alexander Robertson
Alexander Robertson (born February 12, 1896 in Charlesfield , Aberdeenshire , † February 9, 1970 ) was a Scottish chemist.
He was the son of a farmer and studied chemistry at the University of Aberdeen , interrupted from military service in the First World War with the Royal Engineers as a lieutenant in a special unit for chemical warfare. From 1922 he studied with a Carnegie scholarship at the University of Glasgow with George Gerald Henderson and received his doctorate in 1924 with a dissertation on terpenes . He then received a Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Manchester with Robert Robinson and then became a lecturer there . In 1928 he went to the University of London and in 1930 to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. From 1933 to his retirement in 1957 he was professor of organic chemistry at the University of Liverpool . After retiring, he worked on applications in agriculture as a member of the Rothamsted Agricultural Station.
He dealt with natural products and organic chemistry, especially with glycosides . Robertson had been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1941 and received the Davy Medal in 1952 .
In 1926 he married Margaret Mitchell-Chapman, who died in 1957.
literature
- RD Haworth, WB Whalley, Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, 1971
Web links
- biography
- Entry for Robertson, Alexander (1896-1970) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Robertson, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlesfield |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1970 |