Charles Dodds
Sir Charles Dodds Personal lifeHe was born in Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London in 1916, spent one year in the army in 1917, and qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1921.
He died at Paddington, London on 16 December 1973.[5]
CareerIn 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 honoursHe was appointed a Member (fourth class) of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1929 Birthday Honours.[6] In 1940, Dodds received the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh. The next year, 1941, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Alan William Greenwood, James Kendall and Guy Frederic Marrian.[7] In 1942 he was elected to Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (KStJ).
He was County of Sussex on 10 February 1964.[9]
PublicationsHe co-authored a number of books such as The Laboratory in Surgical practice, Chemical and Physiological Properties of Medicine and Recent Advances in British Medicine.[citation needed] Family
In 1923 he married Constance Elizabeth Jordan (d. 1969) of Darlington. They had one son, Sir Ralph Jordan Dodds, who succeeded to the baronetcy on Charles' death in 1973. References
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