Dixon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1942 and became a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1950. He died in Cambridge in 1985.
Dixon was born in Cambridge, UK to Allick Page Dixon and Caroline Dewe Dixon (née Mathews). He received his PhD in 1925, for research supervised by Frederick Gowland Hopkins at the University of Cambridge.
Dixon was an expert on the theory and use of manometers. In 1931, he collaborated with David Keilin and Robin Hill to determine the first absorption spectrum of a cytochrome, cytochrome c. Dixon studied the chemistry of lachrymators and mustard gas and proposed a phosphokinase theory to explain their mode of action.
Dixon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1942 and became a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1950. He died in Cambridge in 1985.
