Former director of research May & Baker Ltd (later Rhone-Poulenc) and visiting professor University of Strathclyde (b Troon 1925; q Glasgow 1948; MD, FRCP Glas, FRSE), d 30 July 2002.
He joined the scientific staff of May & Baker in 1960, eventually becoming director of research. During the next 25 years he was to publish extensively but more importantly he developed a therapeutic agent called Flagyl (metronidazole), so called because it was produced in the first place to treat a flagellate protozoan parasite, the trichomonad. He leaves a wife and three children.
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