Arnold Burgen

Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS (born 20 March, 1922 was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge 1982-89 (Hon. Fellow, 1989) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University, 1985-89. He is married to Olga Kennard.

Education

• Christ's College Finchley
• Student, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 1939-45; MB BS 1945, MD 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.
• Shield 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.

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Society, 1964; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1969; Knight, 1976.