10 Facts About Charles Dodds

Sir Edward Charles Dodds, 1st Baronet was a British biochemist.

Charles Dodds was born in Liverpool in 1899, the only child of Ralph Edward Dodds, a shoe retailer, and Jane Dodds.

Charles Dodds died at Sussex Square in Paddington, London on 16 December 1973.

Charles Dodds's scientific interests were wide and varied; he had a continuing interest in the problem of cancer and of research into its causation, and was an authority on food and diet and devoted time and energy to the problems of rheumatism.

Charles Dodds provided facilities and gave advice and encouragement to younger colleagues in such work as immunopathology, steroid chemistry, cytochemistry and the work which led to the discovery of Aldosterone.

Charles Dodds was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1929 Birthday Honours.

Charles Dodds's proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Alan William Greenwood, James Kendall and Guy Frederic Marrian.

Charles Dodds served the Royal College of Physicians for some years as Harveian Librarian and in 1962 was elected President, the first to hold the office who was laboratory based and not engaged in clinical practice.

Charles Dodds was knighted in 1954, and created 1st Baronet Dodds of West Chiltington in the County of Sussex on 10 February 1964.

Charles Dodds co-authored a number of books such as The Laboratory in Surgical practice, Chemical and Physiological Properties of Medicine and Recent Advances in British Medicine.