Arnold Burgen
Sir Arnold Burgen | |
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Born | 20 March 1922 |
Alma mater | Middlesex Hospital Medical School |
Spouse | Olga Kennard |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pharmacology |
Institutions | McGill University, University of Cambridge |
Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen, FRS (born 20 March 1922) is a retired British 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, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1969, and was Knighted in 1976. He became an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge in 1989.
References
- ^ "Europe unites its scholars of science". New Scientist. 119 (1631). Reed Business Information: 26. 22 September 1988. ISSN 0262-4079. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- 1922 births
- 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
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge
- Alumni of University College London
- British scientist stubs