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Daniel McGillivray Brown was born on 3 February, 1923 in Giffnock, Scotland, is a Scottish organic chemist. Discover Daniel McGillivray Brown's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 3 February 1923
Birthday 3 February
Birthplace Giffnock, Scotland
Date of death 24 April, 2012
Died Place Cambridge, England
Nationality Scotland

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His wife is Margaret Joyce Herbert

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1923

Daniel McGillivray Brown FRS (3 February 1923 – 24 April 2012) was a Scottish nucleic acid chemist.

Daniel McGillivray Brown was born in Giffnock on 3 February 1923, son of David Cunninghame Brown, a restaurateur, and Catherine Stewart (née McGillivray), a teacher.

After Giffnock Primary School he attended Glasgow Academy and then, at age 17, Glasgow University where he studied chemistry, and received an honours degree.

1945

In 1945 Brown moved to the Chester Beatty Research Institute, then in Chelsea, where he worked on the synthesis of heterocyclic stilbene derivatives for his PhD. Then, in 1948, Brown moved to Cambridge to join Alexander Todd’s group.

1952

He gained his second PhD in 1952.

Daniel Brown met Margaret Joyce Herbert at Scottish Highland Dancing classes at the CUSRC in 1952.

They married in Lincolnshire the following year.

1954

Dan and Margaret had four children: Catherine (1954), David (1955), Frances (1961) and Moira (1963).

1959

Brown was appointed lecturer in the chemistry department in 1959, and reader in 1967.

He was Visiting Professor at University of California, Los Angeles 1959–60; and at Brandeis University 1966–67.

1968

He received the Sc.D in 1968, and eventually became Vice-Provost at Kings College in 1974.

1981

In 1981 Brown took a sabbatical at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), and then moved there permanently one year later.

1982

Brown became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.

2002

He retired formally from the LMB in 2002 but continued publishing until 2008.

At Cambridge, Brown set out to confirm the furanose chemical structure of the sugar part of nucleosides in natural nucleic acids, which had only been inferred at the time.

He and Basil Lythgoe proved this to be the case.

He later worked on the selective phosphorylation of nucleosides to form nucleotides.

This was the beginning of a lifelong career, and led to the chemical structures of RNA and, by inference, DNA.

He later worked on phosphoinositides and the mutagenesis of nucleotides.

2012

Daniel McGillivray Brown died at his home in Cambridge on 24 April 2012.

He was survived by his wife, three daughters, four grandchildren and a great grand-daughter.