Adrien Albert

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Adrien Albert
Born(1907-11-19)19 November 1907
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney
Wellcome Research Institution, London
John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University

Adrien Albert

AO (19 November 1907 – 29 December 1989) was a leading authority in the development of medicinal chemistry
in Australia. Albert also authored many important books on chemistry, including one on selective toxicity.

His father, Jacques Albert, was a businessman in the music industry, and took a bride many years his junior; Mary Eliza Blanche. Albert had two much older half brothers, stemming from his father's previous marriage. After a few years, Jacques died, and so, Adrien Albert was raised by his mother and another relative. Albert attended schools in

the Scots College
in Sydney where he excelled in both music and science. He graduated in 1924.

Education and appointments

He was awarded BSc with first class honours and the University Medal in 1932 at the

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 1939 he was a foundation member of the Drugs sub-committee of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers.[1]

Scholarship

Albert was a scholar of

heterocyclic chemistry.[2]
He authored Selective Toxicity: The Physico-Chemical Basis of Therapy, first published by Chapman and Hall in 1951.

Professors John Eccles, Adrien Albert, Frank Fenner and Hugh Ennor study the plans for the proposed new John Curtin School of Medical Research, 1950

Honors and legacy

Albert was made an

Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 1989 Australia Day Honours for "services to medical chemistry, particularly in the fields of teaching and research".[3]

The Adrien Albert Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Sydney was established in his honour in 1989.[4] His bequest funds the Adrien Albert Lectureship, awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Chemistry.[5] The Royal Australian Chemical Institute established the Adrien Albert award (Archived 19 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine) in his honour.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-522-85095-6
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  2. doi:10.1021/ed063p860
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  3. ^ "ALBERT, Adrien". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Adrien Albert Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry - The University of Sydney". usyd.edu.au. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  5. ^ Adrien Albert Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry, www.rsc.org

External links

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