Colin Blakemore

Sir

Colin Blakemore
Sir; Colin Blakemore
	Blakemore in 2012
Born	Colin Brian Blakemore; 1 June 1944; Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died	27 June 2022 (aged 78); Oxford, England
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA); University of California, Berkeley (PhD);
Spouse	Andrée Elizabeth Washbourne
Children	3, inlcuding Sarah-Jayne Blakemore[1]
	Scientific career
Fields	Neurobiology, Ophthalmology
Institutions	University of Cambridge; University of Oxford; University of Warwick; Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School; University of London;
Thesis	Binocular Interaction in Animals and Man (1968)
Doctoral advisor	Horace Barlow

Sir Colin Blakemore, FRS, FMedSci, HonFRCP, HonFRSM, FRSB, FBPhS (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist. His works focused in vision and the development of the brain.

He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and Senior Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong. He was an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford.[2][3][4]

He was called by The Observer as both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement" for his support of animal testing in science.[5]

References

BLAKEMORE, Prof. Sarah-Jayne. Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) (subscription required)
Hopkin, M. (2007). "Straight talk from... Colin Blakemore". Nature Medicine. 13 (10): 1125. doi:10.1038/nm1007-1125. PMID 17917643. S2CID 44378513.
Blakemore, C. (2003). "Raising profile.( Colin Blakemore, the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council interviewed by Nigel Williams)". Current Biology. 13 (23): R891. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2003.11.002. PMID 14654006.
Barbour, V. (2003). "Colin Blakemore". The Lancet. 362 (9395): 1590–1598. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14769-1. PMID 14615136. S2CID 36244369.
McKie, Robin. "Scientist who stood up to terrorism and mob hate faces his toughest test". The Observer, 14 September 2003.

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[sjb-1] BLAKEMORE, Prof. Sarah-Jayne. Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) (subscription required)

[2] Hopkin, M. (2007). "Straight talk from... Colin Blakemore". Nature Medicine. 13 (10): 1125. doi:10.1038/nm1007-1125. PMID 17917643. S2CID 44378513.

[3] Blakemore, C. (2003). "Raising profile.( Colin Blakemore, the new chief executive of the Medical Research Council interviewed by Nigel Williams)". Current Biology. 13 (23): R891. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2003.11.002. PMID 14654006.

[4] Barbour, V. (2003). "Colin Blakemore". The Lancet. 362 (9395): 1590–1598. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14769-1. PMID 14615136. S2CID 36244369.

[McKie1-5] McKie, Robin. "Scientist who stood up to terrorism and mob hate faces his toughest test". The Observer, 14 September 2003.