Alexander George Ogston

Alexander George Ogston
Born(1911-01-30)30 January 1911
Bombay, British India
Died29 June 1996(1996-06-29) (aged 85)
Known forThree-point attachment theory
SpouseElizabeth Wicksteed
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Davy Medal (1986)
Lemberg Medal (1970)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsAustralian National University
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorRonald Percy Bell

Alexander George Ogston FAA FRS[1] (30 January 1911 – 29 June 1996) was a British biochemist who specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems.[2] He was a grandson of Sir Alexander Ogston, a Scottish surgeon who discovered Staphylococcus.[2]

  1. ^ Smithies, O. (1999). "Alexander George Ogston. 30 January 1911 – 29 June 1996: Elected F.R.S. 1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 45: 349. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0024. JSTOR 770281. S2CID 46013797.
  2. ^ a b Smithies, O. "Alexander George Ogston, 1911–1996". Biographical memoirs. Australian Academy of Science. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.