Charles Dodds
| Charles Dodds | |
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| Born |
Edward Charles Dodds 13 October 1899 |
| Died | 16 December 1973 (aged 74) |
| Alma mater | Middlesex Hospital |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society[1] |
Sir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Baronet FRS FRCP (13 October 1899 – 16 December 1973) was a British biochemist.[1][2][3][4]
Education
He was born in Liverpool in 1899, the only child of Ralph Edward and Jane (née Pack) Dodds.[4] The family shortly moved to Leeds, then to Darlington and then to Chesham, Bucks, where he attended Harrow County School. From there he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London in 1916, spent one year in the army in 1917, and qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1921.
Career
In 1924 he was appointed to the new Chair of Biochemistry at the University of London which was started in the Bland Sutton Institute of Pathology at the Middlesex. Three years later, he was appointed Director of the recently completed Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry and retained these two appointments until his retirement forty years later. His scientific interests were wide and varied; he had a continuing interest in the problem of cancer and of research into its causation, and was an authority on food and diet and also devoted time and energy to the problems of rheumatism. He provided facilities and gave advice and encouragement to younger colleagues in such work as immunopathology, steroid chemistry, cytochemistry and the work which led to the discovery of Aldosterone.
Awards and honours
In 1942 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society[1] and subsequently served as Vice-President. He served the Royal College of Physicians for some years as Harveian Librarian and in 1962 was elected President, the first to hold the office who was laboratory based and not engaged in clinical practice. During his term of office as President he was invested as a knight into the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (K.St.J.)(1954) and created 1st Baronet Dodds of West Chiltington, co. Sussex (1964).[5]
He co-authored a number of books such as The Laboratory in Surgical practice,Chemical and Physiological Propertes of Medicine and Recent Advances in British Medicine .
Personal life
In 1923 he had married Constance Jordan of Darlington; they had one son, Sir Ralph Jordan Dodds, who succeeded to his title on his death in 1973.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dickens, F. (1975). "Edward Charles Dodds 13 October 1899-16 December 1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 21: 227–267. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1975.0006. PMID 11615718.
- ↑ Sir Edward Charles Dodds. Munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved on 4 June 2014.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Whitby, G. (2004). "Dodds, Sir (Edward) Charles, first baronet (1899–1973)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31038.
- ↑ Sir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Bt.. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved on 4 June 2014.
| Academic offices | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Robert Platt, Bt |
President of the Royal College of Physicians 1962–1965 |
Succeeded by Max Rosenheim |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baronet (of West Chiltington) 1964–1973 |
Succeeded by Ralph Dodds |
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