Michael Abraham

Michael H Abraham (11 December 1931, London – 19 January 2021) was an English chemist.

Biography Abraham was born 11 December 1931 in London to Judah and Elizabeth Abraham. He was one of four boys. He attended Magnus Grammar School in Newark-on-Trent before graduating with first class honours from Northern Polytechnic London, where he studied chemistry, in 1951. He then earned his PhD from University College London (UCL) under Alwyn Davies, and later his DSc in 1974. He received two Ebert awards from the American Pharmaceutical Association: one in 1992 for his paper Role of hydrogen bonding in general anaesthesia, and again in 2002 for his paper on the "valuation of human intestinal absorption data and subsequent derivation".

Abraham died on 19 January 2021, aged 89.

Selected publications