Murdoch Mitchison#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 296 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Professor Murdoch Mitchison passed away March 17, 2011.
Positions held
- 1963 - 1988 Professor of Zoology at the University of Edinburgh
- 1964 - 1972 President of the British Society for Cell Biology
- 1853 - 1963 Lecturer
- 1950 - 1954 Research Scholar at Trinity
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular biology
- Cell cycle in yeast
Honours and Awards
- 1974 - 1979 Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
- 1968 - 1971 Member of the Working Group on Biological Manpower
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1966 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1978 Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- Academic advisor to the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology (recipient Paul Nurse)
