Stewart Sanders Adams (1923 - 2019)

Born 16 Apr 1923 in Byfield, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 30 Jan 2019 at age 95 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Biography

Stewart Adams is Notable.

Stewart Adams was born on 16 Apr 1923 as a son of a railwayman in a rural area. At the age of 16 he left school and did an apprentice at a pharmacist. The pharmacy chain Boots sponsored him to go to University In 1942. At the University College Nottingham (later Nottingham University) he was awarded a Bachelor degree in Pharmacy in 1945. Because he was a student he was not drafted for World War II. After his Bachelor degree he had worked in the area of Penicillin research. He then added to his degrees a PhD of Leeds University, for which he got a studentship of Boots and the Pharmaceutical Society. After he finished his studies, Boots put him into the research department to find something against Rheumatical Arthritis which doesn't have the side effects of Cortisone. He and John Nicholson worked for years before they found Ibuprofen at the start of the 1960s. In 1966 the active component went into clinical studies and in 1969 it was allowed in the UK as a prescription drug. During the 1970s its popularity grew and in 1983 it was allowed in the UK as over-the-counter drug. In 1987 he was awarded an OBE because Ibuprofen was this successful and popular worldwide. In 2008 Adams received an Honorary Science degree of University Nottingham. In 2016 the students of Nottingham University elected him "Best Alumni" of the University.

Sources

• England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content) : accessed 01 August 2021, database entry for ADAMS, STEWART SANDERS ; GRO Reference: 1923 J Quarter in DAVENTRY Volume 03B Page 157
• Birth registry index
• Marriage registry index
• Interview with Stewart Adams
• Webiste of Boots Pharmacies
• Nottingham University announces Adams' death
• Article in Nottingham Post
• German article, summary of an interview with Pharmaceutical Journal

Wikidata: Item Q20984389, en:Wikipedia

• England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content) : accessed 01 August 2021, database entry for ADAMS, STEWART SANDERS ; GRO Reference: DOR Q1/2019 in NOTTINGHAM (689-1F) Entry Number 518542188