George H. Dodd

George H. Dodd
Born	About 1942 Dublin
Died	(2020-12-14)14 December 2020
Education	Trinity College Dublin, University of Oxford (D.Phil.)
Known for	Studies of olfaction
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	Unilever, University of Warwick
Doctoral advisor	George Radda

George H Dodd was a biochemist who specialised in the study and production of perfumes and pheromones. ^{[1] [2] [3]} He died on 14th December 2020. ^{[4] [5]}

Career

George Dodd studied at Trinity College Dublin, and obtained his D.Phil. at Oxford under the supervision of George Radda; ^[4] his thesis described studies structural transitions of the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase using new methods based on fluorescence spectroscopy. ^[6] He worked at Unilever before joining the University of Warwick in 1971. There he returned to his lifelong interest in olfaction, writing, for example, on the effect of odorants on enzyme activity. ^[7] After leaving Warwick in 1994 he founded a smell biotechnology company, Kiotech and later opened “The Perfume Studio”. ^[4]

References

1. Janice Hopper (15 June 2017), "Sniffing out his story: George Dodd and the Aroma Academy", Irish Examiner, archived from the original on 28 August 2017, retrieved 7 August 2017
2. "Scents & Sensibility", The Scotsman, 7 January 2007
3. John Windsor (11 November 1996), "On the scent of love", The Independent
4. "In memoriam George Dodd". 31 December 2020.
5. Adrian Hollister. "Dr. George Dodd".
6. Dodd, G H; Radda, G K (1969). "1-Anilinonaphthalene-8-sulphonate, a fluorescent conformational probe for glutamate dehydrogenase". Biochem. J. 114 (2): 407–417. doi:10.1042/bj1140407. PMC   1184868 . PMID   4309311.
7. Shirley, S G; Robinson, C J; Dickinson, K; Aujla, R; Dodd, G H (1986). "Olfactory adenylate-cyclase of the rat: stimulation by odorants and inhibition by Ca²⁺". Biochem. J. 240 (2): 605–607. doi:10.1042/bj2400605. PMC   1147457 . PMID   3814101.