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Norman Davidson (biochemist)

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graduating with a BSc in 1934, MB ChB in 1937, MD in 1939 and a DSc in 1945. The topic of his DSc thesis was biochemical investigations on cellular proliferation.
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on 5 March 1911 and lived in the family home of 30 Bruntsfield Gardens in the south of the city. He was educated locally, at
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James Norman Davidson (1911-72), Professor of Biochemistry, 1947-72, University of Glasgow
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In 1938 he married Morag McLeod (now Dr Morag Davidson). Their children included
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He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1967.
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as the Gardiner Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow.
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He was the only child of Wilhelmina Ibberson Foote and James Davidson
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in autumn of 1938 to begin lecturing in biochemistry at the
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Norman Davidson
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Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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He then studied Medicine and Organic Chemistry at the
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Index

James Norman Davidson
University of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Royal Society
FRSE
Biochemistry
University of Aberdeen
University of St Andrews
University of Glasgow
CBE
PRSE
FRS
biochemist
molecular biologist
University of Glasgow
FRSE
FSA
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Edinburgh
George Watson's College
dux
University of Edinburgh
Otto Heinrich Warburg
Scotland
University of St Andrews
University of Aberdeen
Royal Society of Edinburgh
James Kendall
Ernest Cruickshank
Robert Campbell Garry
Anderson Gray M'Kendrick

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