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{{short description|British biochemist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix  = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name              = The Lord Todd
| honorific_suffix  = {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM|FRS|FRSE|size=100%}}
| caption           = Alexander Todd in 1957
| birth_name        = Alexander Robertus Todd
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=yes|1907|10|02}}
| birth_place       = [[Cathcart]], Scotland
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=yes|1997|01|10|1907|10|02}}
| death_place       = [[Oakington]], England
| image             = Alexander Todd Nobel.jpg
| fields            = [[Chemistry]], [[Biochemistry]]
| workplaces        = [[Lister Institute]] <br /> [[University of Edinburgh]] <br />[[University of London]] <br />[[University of Manchester]] <br /> [[University of Cambridge]]<br /> [[University of Strathclyde]] <br /> [[Hatfield Polytechnic]]
| alma_mater        = [[University of Glasgow]]<br />[[University of Frankfurt am Main]] <br />[[Oriel College, Oxford]]
| doctoral_advisor  = [[:de:Walther Borsche|Prof. Dr. Walther Borsche]], <br />[[Robert Robinson (organic chemist)|Sir Robert Robinson]]
| doctoral_students = [[J. Rodney Quayle]]
| prizes            = {{no wrap|[[Tilden Prize]] (1940)<br />[[Davy Medal]] (1949)<br />[[Royal Medal]] (1955)<br />[[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] (1957)<br />[[Paul Karrer Gold Medal]] (1963)<br />[[Copley Medal]] (1970)<br />[[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] (1978)}}
}}
'''Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd''' (2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997) was a British [[biochemist]] whose research on the structure and [[biosynthesis|synthesis]] of [[nucleotide]]s, [[nucleoside]]s, and nucleotide [[coenzyme]]s gained him the [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] in 1957.