James Norman Davidson CBE PRSE FRS (5 March 1911 – 11 September 1972) was a British biochemist, pioneer molecular biologist and textbook author.
[2] He was the only child of Wilhelmina Ibberson Foote and James Davidson FRSE FSA (1873-1956) a lawyer, Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and originally from Aberdeenshire.
He was born in Edinburgh on 5 March 1911 and lived in the family home of 30 Bruntsfield Gardens in the south of the city.
[4][5] He then studied Medicine and Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1934,[1] MB ChB in 1937, MD in 1939 and a DSc in 1945.
His proposers were James Kendall, Ernest Cruickshank, Robert Campbell Garry, and Anderson Gray M'Kendrick.