| Authorised form of name | Mitchison; John Murdoch (1922 - 2011) |
| Dates | 1922 - 2011 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Date of birth | 11/06/1922 |
| Date of death | 17/03/2011 |
| Occupation | Zoologist |
| Activity | Education:
Winchester College and Trinity College in Cambridge
Career:
Murdoch Mitchinson went to and later became Professor of Zoology at Edinburgh University in 1963 after working there for a decade. Considered a pioneer in the area of cellular biology, Mitchinson developed the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a model system to study the mechanisms and kinetics of growth and the cell cycle.] He was an academic advisor to the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology recipient Paul Nurse. |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1978 |
| Age at election | 55 |
| Relationships | Son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi (née Haldane); maternal nephew of biologist J.B.S. Haldane (FRS 1932); maternal grandson of physiologist John Scott Haldane (FRS 1897); younger brother of the bacteriologist Denis Mitchison; elder brother of the zoologist Avrion Mitchison; married Rosalind Mitchison, historian |
| Code | NA3994 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1978/21 | Mitchison, John Murdoch: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1975 |
| IM/GA/JGRS/8108 | Mitchison, John Murdoch | 1978 |