Murdoch Mitchison#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 296 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Username: | mmitchison |
| Elected: | 1989 |
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
- Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1974-79)
- Member of the Working Group on Biological Manpower (1968-71)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (1989)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1966)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1978)
- Academic advisor to the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology (recipient Paul Nurse)
