Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
(1907-1997), ChemistSitter in 22 portraits
Organic chemist. Alexander Todd's research into the structures of nucleic acids was an essential preliminary to the work carried out by James Watson and Francis Crick on the double-helix structure of DNA. The importance of Todd's work was acknowledged in 1957 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. On his retirement, Todd declined the offer of becoming vice-chancellor of Cambridge University but he accepted the position of the first chancellor of the University of Strathclyde.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 25 May 1977
NPG P1262
Nobel prize winning scientists
by Arnold Newman
bromide print, 1978
NPG P150(48)
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Nick Sinclair
bromide print, 1993
NPG P564(22)
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1945
NPG x185705
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Antony Barrington Brown
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1953
NPG x104750
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Antony Barrington Brown
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1953
NPG x104778
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 15 October 1963
NPG x21958
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Kristinn Ingvarsson
bromide print, 27 February 1989
NPG x32756
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 1950
NPG x99210
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 1950
NPG x99211
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 November 1963
NPG x175807
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 November 1963
NPG x175808
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 November 1963
NPG x175809
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 November 1963
NPG x175810
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 21 November 1963
NPG x175811
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