| E. C. Dodds AKA Edward Charles Dodds Born: 13-Oct-1899
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Died: 16-Dec-1973
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist, Doctor Nationality: England
Executive summary: Diethylstilbestrol Military service: British Army (1917-19) British biochemist Edward Charles Dodds studied endocrinology, and in 1938 discovered a synthetic compound that mimicked estroene, rarest of the three naturally occurring estrogens (female sex hormones). Dodds did not patent the compound, diethylstilbestrol, which allowed its economical mass production for numerous medicinal purposes including menopausal symptoms, suppression of postpartum lactation, general estrogen deficiency, and to prevent miscarriages among pregnant women. Over subsequent decades the drug's toxic and carcinogenic effects became known, including its ability to trigger genetic changes passed from mothers to their children. Father: Ralph Dodds
Mother: Jane Pack Dodds
Wife: Constance Jordon Dodds (d. 1969, one son)
Son: Ralph Jordan Dodds (b. 1928)
High School: Harrow County School, Chesham, England
Medical School: MD, Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1921)
Teacher: Medicine, Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1921-24)
Professor: Biochemistry, University of London (1924-67)
Administrator: Director, Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1927-67)
Knight of the British Empire 1954
Life Peerage 1964 as Baron Dodds of West Chiltington
Alpine Club
Royal College of Surgeons President (1962-66)
Royal Society
Royal Society of Arts
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Society of Apothecaries
English Ancestry
Author of books:
Recent Advances in Medicine (1924, with George E. Beaumont)
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