Alexander George Ogston
Birth : (1911-01-30)30 January 1911 Bombay,British India
Death : 29 June 1996(1996-06-29)(aged 85)
Personal Information
| Name | Alexander George Ogston |
|---|---|
| Birth | (1911-01-30)30 January 1911 Bombay,British India |
| Birth Place | Bombay,British India |
| Death | (1996-06-29)(aged 85) |
| Died At | |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institution | Australian National University
Oxford) |
| Famous Research | Three-point attachment theory | Doctoral Advisor | Ronald Percy Bell |
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Alexander George Ogston FAA FRS (30 January 1911 – 29 June 1996) was a biochemist who specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems.
Apart from a period as Freedom Research Fellow at the London Hospital, he spent most of his career at Oxford, being appointed Demonstrator (1938) and Reader (1955) in Biochemistry, and Fellow and Tutor in Physical Chemistry at Balliol (1937).
In 1959 he took up an appointment as Professor of Physical Biochemistry at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, Canberra, where he remained until 1970, when he returned to Oxford as President of Trinity College.
On his retirement in 1978, he held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia and the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.
Ogston was elected FRS in 1955, and was awarded the Davy Medal in 1986.
