David Templeton Gibson FRSE (1899–1985) was a British chemist who spent his entire career at the University of Glasgow.
[1] He was born in Ireland on 23 November 1899, the son of Thomas Henry Gibson, a barrister, and his wife, Jessie Templeton.
[2] He spent his entire career thereafter at Glasgow University beginning as an Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry in 1924.
The University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1932 and he was then raised to a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry.
His proposers were John Monteath Robertson, Robert Campbell Garry, James Norman Davidson and Philip Ivor Dee.