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William Bate Hardy Prize
The William Bate Hardy Prize is awarded by the Cambridge Philosophical Society. It is awarded once in three years “for the best original memoir, investigation or discovery by a member of the University of Cambridge in connection with Biological Science that may have been published during the three years immediately preceding”. Recipients (''incomplete list-prize awarded at least 22 times by 2014'') *1966 Hugh Huxley (inaugural winner) *1969 Sydney Brenner and Ralph Riley *1976 Frederick Sanger *1978 Richard Henderson *1981 César Milstein *1984 John Gurdon *1987 Michael Berridge *1991 Azim Surani *1993 Martin Evans *1995 Nicholas Barry Davies *1998 Tim Clutton-Brock and Andrew Wyllie (shared) *2001 Michael Neuberger and James Cuthbert Smith (shared) *2004 Andrea Brand and Robin Irvine (shared) *2010 Beverley Glover, Dr Peter Forster and Simon Conway Morrisbr>(shared) *2014 Serena Nik-Zainal See also * List of biology awards This list of biology awards is an index to art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bate Hardy
Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS (6 April 1864 – 23 January 1934) was a British biologist and food scientist. The William Bate Hardy Prize is named in his honour. Life He was born in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham, the son of William Hardy of Llangollen and his wife Sarah Bate. Educated at Framlingham College, he graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge in 1888, where he carried out biochemical research. He first suggested the word hormone to E.H. Starling. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1902, and delivered their Croonian Lecture in 1905, their Bakerian Lecture (jointly) in 1925 and won their Royal Medal in 1926. Hardy delivered the Guthrie lecture to the Physical Society in 1916. In 1920 Hardy, in cooperation with Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, the secretary of the Medical Research Committee, persuaded the trustees of the Sir William Dunn legacy to use the money for research in biochemistry and pathology. To this end they funded Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Clutton-Brock
Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock (born 13 August 1946) is a British zoologist known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals, particularly red deer and meerkats.University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology page for Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS Education Clutton-Brock was educated at the where he was awarded a PhD in 1972.Career and research As of 2008, he is the Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Biology Awards
This list of biology awards is an index to articles about notable awards for biology. It includes a general list and lists of ecology, genetics and neuroscience awards. It excludes awards for biochemistry, biomedical science, medicine, ornithology and paleontology, which are covered by separate lists. General awards International Americas Asia Europe Oceania Ecology Genetics Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) Neuroscience See also * Competitions and prizes in biotechnology * Lists of awards * Lists of science and technology awards * List of biochemistry awards * List of biomedical science awards * List of awards in bioinformatics and computational biology * List of fellows of the AACR Academy * List of medicine awards * List of ornithology awards * List of paleontology awards References {{Science and technology awards Lists of biology lists b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serena Nik-Zainal
Serena Nik-Zainal is a British-Malaysian clinician who is a consultant in clinical genetics and Cancer Research UK advanced clinician scientist at the University of Cambridge. She makes use of genomics for clinical applications. She was awarded the Crick Lecture by the Royal Society in 2021. Early life and education Nik-Zainal was born in England. Her father was a cardiologist who was involved in the first coronary artery bypass surgery to take place in Malaysia. She was supported by Petronas to attend the University of Cambridge, where she studied medicine. She moved to the Wellcome Sanger Institute in 2009, where she started doctoral research using whole genome sequencing to better understand breast cancer. Whole genome sequencing allows for Nik-Zainal to understand the frequency, distribution and mutation patterns of cancer. She showed that it was possible to identify mutational signatures using downstream analysis, and that algorithms could be used to identify abnormalities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated in Stephen Jay Gould's 1989 book '' Wonderful Life''. Conway Morris's own book on the subject, ''The Crucible of Creation'' (1998), however, is critical of Gould's presentation and interpretation. Conway Morris, a Christian, holds to theistic views of biological evolution. He has held the Chair of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge since 1995. Biography Early years Conway Morris was born on 6 November 1951. A native of Carshalton, Surrey, he was brought up in London, England. and went on to study geology at Bristol University, achieving a First Class Honours degree. He then moved to Cambridge University and completed a PhD at St John's College under Harry Blackmore Whittington. He is pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Forster (geneticist)
Peter Forster FRSB (born 27 June 1967) is a geneticist researching the prehistoric origins and ancestry of mankind. In addition to archaeogenetics, he has published on the reconstruction and spread of prehistoric languages and in the field of forensic genetics. Biography Peter Forster studied chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and the University of Hamburg. At the Heinrich-Pette-Institut for Virology and Immunology in Hamburg, he specialised in genetics and obtained his PhD degree in 1997 in biology on the topic of "Dispersal and differentiation of modern Homo sapiens analysed with mitochondrial DNA". After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Legal Medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster, he was appointed Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge University in 1999, and furthermore a Fellow at Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge. He is on the editorial board of the Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverley Glover
Beverley Jane Glover, (born 7 March 1972) is a British biologist specialising in botany. Since July 2013, she has been Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Early life and education Glover was born on 7 March 1972 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. She is the daughter of Michael Glover and Margaret Glover (née Smith). She was educated at Perth High School, a comprehensive school in Perth, Scotland. She studied plant and environmental biology at the University of St Andrews, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1993. During her undergraduate degree, she spent one summer working at the St Andrews Botanic Garden as a gardener. She then began postgraduate research in plant molecular genetics at the John Innes Centre. In 1997, she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, awarded by the University of East Anglia. Her doctoral thesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Irvine (biologist)
Robin Irvine (21 December 1901, in Stoke Newington, London, England – 28 April 1933, in Bermuda) was a British film actor. He was married to actress Ursula Jeans from 1931 until his death from pleurisy aged 31. Filmography * ''The Secret Kingdom'' (1925) * ''Downhill'' (1927) * ''Land of Hope and Glory'' (1927) * ''Confetti'' (1928) * '' Easy Virtue'' (1928) * '' Palais de danse'' (1928) * ''The Rising Generation'' (1928) * ''The Intruder'' (1928) – short * '' Young Woodley'' (1928) * ''A Knight in London'' (1929) * ''Come Back, All Is Forgiven'' (1929) * ''The Ship of Lost Souls'' (1929) * ''Mischievous Miss'' (1930) * '' Leave It to Me'' (1930) * ''Keepers of Youth'' (1931) * ''Above Rubies'' (1932) References External links * Robin Irvine obituaryin ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Brand
Andrea Hilary Brand (born March 9, 1959) is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She heads a lab investigating nervous system development at the Gurdon Institute and the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. She developed the GAL4/UAS system with Norbert Perrimon which has been described as “a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife”. Early life and education Brand was born in the U.S., where her father was an economist at the United Nations in New York. She graduated from the UN International School in New York and in 1977, inspired by the work of Rosalind Franklin, she moved to Britain to study biochemistry at the University of Oxford. She studied at Oxford from 1977 to 1981, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors. From there she went to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge. She was there from 1981 to 1986, in which year she was awarded a Ph.D. Career and research Postd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cuthbert Smith
Sir James Cuthbert Smith (born 31 December 1954) is Director of Science at the Wellcome Trust and Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute. Education Smith was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1976. He was awarded a PhD in 1979 by University College London (UCL) for research supervised by Lewis Wolpert at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Career and research Smith completed postdoctoral research appointments at Harvard Medical School from 1979 to 1981 and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) from 1981 to 1984. In 1984 he joined the staff of the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), becoming head of the Division of Developmental Biology in 1991 and head of the Genes and Cellular Control Group in 1996. He moved to become director of the Gurdon Institute in 2001, returning to NIMR in 2009 to become its director. In 2014 he became Deputy C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Neuberger
Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS FMedSci (2 November 1953 – 26 October 2013) was a British biochemist and immunologist. Biography Born in Kensington, Michael Samuel Neuberger was the fourth of five children of Albert Neuberger and Lilian Ida (née Dreyfus). He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Natural Sciences in 1974. Neuberger then joined Brian Hartley at Imperial College to study for his PhD. During this time, and at Hartley’s suggestion, he visited the South African biologist Sydney Brenner at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. Their discussions drew Neuberger back to the LMB in 1980 and he remained there for the rest of his career, eventually becoming its deputy director. César Milstein at the LMB recommended that Neuberger spent some time studying immunology with Klaus Rajewsky at the University of Cologne; he spent 18 months there, after his PhD. Neuberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Wyllie (pathologist)
Andrew David Hamilton Wyllie FMedSci FRS (1944 – 26 May 2022) was a Scottish pathologist. In 1972, while working with electron microscopes at the University of Aberdeen he realised the significance of natural cell death. He and his colleagues John Kerr and Alastair Currie called this process apoptosis, from the use of this word in an ancient Greek poem to mean "falling off" (like leaves falling from a tree). He completed postdoctoral training in Cambridge University and became Professor of Experimental Pathology at the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1992. He left Edinburgh for a chair at Cambridge in 1998 where he continued to lecture to undergraduate medical and natural sciences students. His works have contributed to the understanding of apoptosis in health and in disease. Apoptosis is used during early development to eliminate unwanted cells; for example, those between the fingers of a developing hand. In adults, apoptosis is used to rid the body of cells that ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
