Professor John Dixon Mollon

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FRS.
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. He is a leading researcher in

visual neuroscience Visual Neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that focuses on the visual system of the human body, mainly located in the brain's visual cortex. The main goal of visual neuroscience is to understand how neural activity results in visual percepti ...

. His work has been cited over 15,000 times.

Early life

Education

Having graduated in

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and

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from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, Mollon remained at the university for his DPhil. He later received a DSc, also from Oxford.

Career

Mollon was appointed as a lecturer at the

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in 1976, a position which he held until 1993. He was then a

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until 1998, at which point he became Professor of Visual Neuroscience. He became a Fellow of

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

in 1996; in 2011 he became a Distinguished Teaching Fellow. He has been the President of the Fellows of the College since 2013. The President "is the elected senior representative of the College's Fellows and deputizes for the Master where necessary" He has previously served as the Chairman of the Colour Group of Great Britain; the Honorary Secretary of the Experimental Psychology Society; and the President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He has been the President of the International Colour Vision Society since 2011. He was the principal developer of th
Cambridge Colour Test
and supervised the collection of th
Cambridge database of natural spectra

Awards and honors

*Rank Prize Funds Award for Work on Genetics of Colour Vision 1988 *Edridge-Green Lecture 1988 *Champness Lecture 1998 *Newton Medal 1999 *Kenneth Craik Award 2000 *Tillyer Medal 2000 *Verriest Medal 2005, "bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions to the field of color vision"
Web page of the University of Durham *Lord Crook Medal 2008 *FRS 1999

References

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