George H. Dodd

George H Dodd was a biochemist who specialised in the study and production of perfumes and pheromones. He died in December 2020.

Career
George Dodd studied at Trinity College Dublin, and obtained his D.Phil. at Oxford under the supervision of George Radda; his thesis described studies structural transitions of the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase using new methods based on fluorescence spectroscopy. 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. After leaving Warwick in 1994 he founded a smell biotechnology company, Kiotech and later opened “The Perfume Studio”.