Arnold Burgen
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Sir Arnold Burgen | |
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Born | 20 March 1922 |
Alma mater | Middlesex Hospital Medical School |
Spouse(s) | Olga Kennard |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pharmacology |
Institutions | McGill University University of Cambridge |
Notable students |
Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen, FRS (born 20 March 1922) is a British retired physician, pharmacologist, academic and university administrator. He was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge[1] from 1982–89, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The University of Cambridge from 1985–89, and founding President of the Academia Europæa.
He is married to British crystallographer Olga Kennard.
Education[]
Burgen attended Christ's College Finchley, a grammar school in Finchley, north London. He was subsequently a student at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (now part of University College, London) becoming a Doctor of Medicine in 1950.
Career[]
- House Physician, Middlesex Hospital, 1945; Demonstrator, 1945–48, Asst Lectr, 1948–49, in Pharmacology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
- Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, 1949–62; Deputy Director, University Clinic, Montreal General Hospital, 1957-62.
- Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, 1962–71; Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, 1962–71, Hon. Fellow 1972
- Director, National Institute for Medical Research, 1971-82.
- President, the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology 1972-75
Honours[]
Burgen was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society in 1964,[2] Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1969, and was knighted in the 1976 New Year Honours. Burgen was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 1987.[3] He became an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge in 1989.
References[]
- ^ "Europe unites its scholars of science". New Scientist. Reed Business Information. 119 (1631): 26. 22 September 1988. ISSN 0262-4079. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- ^ "Arnold Burgen". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015.
- ^ "Arnold Burgen". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.
- 1922 births
- British pharmacologists
- 20th-century British medical doctors
- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Knights Bachelor
- Living people
- McGill University faculty
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Masters of Darwin College, Cambridge
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge
- Alumni of University College London
- People educated at Christ's College, Finchley
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