Alexander Robertus Todd:
Alexander Robertus Todd was a Scottish biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 2, 1907 in Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland
Death:
January 10, 1997 in Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England
Claim to Fame:
Todd was a Scottish biochemist who was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with nucleotides, nucleosides and their co-enzymes. He studied the structure and synthesis of many of these compounds that are the building blocks of DNA and RNA. He also synthesized two important biochemical compounds: adenosine triphosphate or ATP and flavin adenine dinucleotide or FAD.
