Iain Donald Campbell (24 April 1941 – 5 March 2014)
[ was a Scottish ]biophysicist
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and academic. He was Professor of Structural Biology
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at the University of Oxford
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from 1992 to 2009.
Early life and education
Campbell was born on 24 April 1941 in Blackford, Perth and Kinross
Blackford (Scottish Gaelic: ''Srath Gaoithe'') is located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately from the town of Auchterarder. The village is located just off the A9 between Perth and Stirling which has been bypassed since 1978. It is ho ...
, Scotland
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. He was the son of Daniel Campbell and Catherine Campbell (née Lauder). He was educated at Perth Academy
Perth Academy is a state comprehensive secondary school in Perth, Scotland. It was founded in 1696. The institution is a non-denominational one. The school occupies ground on the side of a hill in the Viewlands area of Perth, and is within the Pe ...
, a state school in Perth
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. He went on to study physics
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at the University of St Andrews
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, graduating in 1963. He remained at St Andrews to undertake post-graduate
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research and completed his Doctor of Philosophy
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(PhD) degree in physics. His doctoral advisor was Dirk Bijl, and he undertook research under John F. Allen.
Career and research
Campbell worked briefly at the University of Bradford
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before moving to the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory
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at the University of Oxford in South Parks Road
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, Oxford
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, in 1967, to work with the chemist Sir Rex Richards. He was appointed a Fellow
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of St John's College, Oxford
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in 1987 and Emeritus
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Research Fellow
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in 2009.
Awards and honours
Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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(FRS) in 1995. He was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation
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(EMBO). He was awarded the Croonian Lecture
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by the Royal Society in 2006 and received honorary degrees from the University of Lund
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and University of St Andrews.
Personal life
Campbell married Karin Wehle in 1967. They had two daughters and a son.[ ] The family lived in Summertown, Oxford
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. Campbell died of bone cancer
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.
References
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1941 births
2014 deaths
People from Perth and Kinross
People educated at Perth Academy
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Academics of the University of Bradford
Scottish biochemists
Scottish biophysicists
Fellows of St John's College, Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Society
Deaths from cancer in England
Deaths from bone cancer
Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
20th-century British physicists
20th-century British chemists
20th-century Scottish scientists