Karalyn Eve Patterson, is a British psychologist in Department of Clinical Neurosciences,

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and

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. She is a specialist in

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and an Emeritus

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of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Early life and education

Patterson was born in

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and attended South Shore High School, Chicago, from which she graduated in 1961. She completed her

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(PhD) at the

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, in 1971.

Career and research

In 1975, Patterson moved to England to take a position at the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge.

Awards and honours

Patterson is one of a select group of academics that are fellows of both the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

, the UK's

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for science, and the

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, the UK's national academy for humanities and social sciences. Her nomination for the Royal Society reads: In 2020, Patterson was awarded the Suffrage Science Life Sciences Award. Roy and Karalyn Patterson

Personal life

In addition to her academic roles, Patterson has an interest in food and wine, and has served as a wine steward at Darwin College, Cambridge. Patterson is married to Roy D. Patterson.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Patterson, Karalyn Living people Female Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) British psychologists Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge British neuroscientists British women neuroscientists Fellows of the Royal Society 1943 births University of California, San Diego alumni Place of birth missing (living people)