Colin Blakemore
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Blakemore photographed in London in 2012
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| Born | Colin Brian Blakemore 1 June 1944 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England |
| Fields | Neurobiology, Ophthalmology |
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| Thesis | Binocular Interaction in Animals and Man (1968) |
| Notable awards | Robert Bing Prize (Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences), Prix du Docteur Robert Netter (Académie Nationale de Médecine, France), Cairns Memorial Medal, Michael Faraday Prize (Royal Society), Osler Medal (University of Oxford), Ellison-Cliffe Medal, Alcon Research Institute Award, Charter Award (Society of Biology, Baly Gold Medal (Royal College of Physicians), Edinburgh Medal, Science Educator Award (Society for Neuroscience), Harveian Oration (Royal College of Physicians), Ferrier Award (Royal Society), Friendship Award (People's Republic of China), Ralph W. Gerard Award (Society for Neuroscience) |
| Spouse | Andrée Elizabeth Washbourne |
| Children | Sarah-Jayne Blakemore |
Sir Colin Brian Blakemore, FRS, FMedSci, FRSB, FBPhS (born 1 June 1944), is a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain, who is Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). He is 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 has been both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1944, he was educated at King Henry VIII School in Coventry and then won a state scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he gained a first-class degree in medical sciences. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Physiological Optics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States, as a Harkness Fellow in 1968. From 1968 to 1979 he was a Demonstrator and then Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Cambridge, and was also Director of Medical Studies at Downing College. From 1976 to 1979 he held the Royal Society Locke Research Fellowship.
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