Colin Blakemore
British neurobiologist (1944–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Colin Blakemore, FRS, FMedSci, HonFRCP, HonFRSM, FRSB, FBPhS (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong. He was a distinguished senior fellow in the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a past Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC).[4][5][6] He was best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to The Observer, he was both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".[7]
Sir Colin Blakemore | |
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Born | Colin Brian Blakemore (1944-06-01)1 June 1944 Stratford-upon-Avon, England |
Died | 27 June 2022(2022-06-27) (aged 78) Oxford, England |
Alma mater | |
Spouse |
Andrée Elizabeth Washbourne
(m. 1965; died 2022) |
Children | 3, including Sarah-Jayne Blakemore[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neurobiology Ophthalmology |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Binocular Interaction in Animals and Man (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Horace Barlow |
Doctoral students | J. Anthony Movshon[3] |