George H. Dodd

George H Dodd was a biochemist who specialised in the study and production of perfumes and pheromones.[1][2][3] He died in December 2020.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6] 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
  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".
  5. 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.
  6. 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.


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