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Colin Blakemore
British neurobiologist (1944–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Colin Blakemore, FRS, FMedSci, HonFRCP, HonFRSM, FRSB, FBPhS (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist. His works focused in vision and the development of the brain.
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Born | Colin Brian Blakemore (1944-06-01)1 June 1944 Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England |
Died | 27 June 2022(2022-06-27) (aged 78) Oxford, England |
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Spouse | Andrée Elizabeth Washbourne |
Children | 3, inlcuding Sarah-Jayne Blakemore[1] |
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Fields | Neurobiology, Ophthalmology |
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Thesis | Binocular Interaction in Animals and Man (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Horace Barlow |
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He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and Senior Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong. He was an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford.[2][3][4]
He was called by The Observer as both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement" for his support of animal testing in science.[5]