Christopher M. Dobson
University of Cambridge
October 8, 1949 - September 8, 2019
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Scientific Discipline: Chemistry Membership Type:
International Member
(elected 2013)
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Chris Dobson was an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Oxford, and received his doctorate in 1976. He moved to Harvard University in 1977 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and was also a Visiting Scientist at MIT. He then returned in the early 1980s to the University of Oxford, first as a Lecturer in Chemistry and later as Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences. In 2001 he moved to the University of Cambridge as John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology. In 2007 he was also elected as Master of St John's College, Cambridge.
