Sir George Lindor Brown (9 February 1903,

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– 22 February 1971) was an English

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and secretary of the

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, of which he was elected a

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in 1946. He was commonly referred to as Sir Lindor Brown; by his own preference. He was

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at the University of Oxford from 1960 to 1967. He resigned from this post to become Principal of

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1903 births 1971 deaths Alumni of the University of Manchester English physiologists Academics from Liverpool Waynflete Professors of Physiology Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Boteler Grammar School Principals of Hertford College, Oxford Jodrell Professors of Physiology The Journal of Physiology editors {{biologist-stub