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Authorised form of name	Burns; Benedict Delisle (1915 - 2001)
Dates	1915 - 2001
Place of birth	London, England
Date of birth	22/02/1915
Place of death	Hexham, Northumberland
Date of death	06/09/2001
Research field	Neuroscience
Activity	Education: University College School, Hampstead, London; Tubingen University (1931-1932, Physics and Chemistry); King's College, Cambridge (Natural Sciences, then Medicine) Career: University College Hospital, London (qualified 1939); operational research under Solly Zuckerman (FRS 1943) (during World War 2); research on neuromuscular transmission, National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) (1945-1949); Associate Professor, Department of Physiology (1950-1958), then Professor (1958-1967), McGill University, Montreal Canada ; Chairman of Department (1965-1967); Head, Division of Physiology and Pharmacology, NIMR (1967-1976); Honorary Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy, Bristol University (1977-1980); Visitor, Division of Neurobiology, University of Newcastle (1980-2001)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	21/03/1968
Age at election	53
Relationships	Married: 1) (1938) Angela Ricardo, four sons (marriage dissolved); 2) (1954) Monika Kaputis, one daughter (marriage dissolved)
Source	Sources: Obituary: Independent 15 November 2001
Code	NA8359

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
GLB/19/1/54	B Burns, Victoria Avenue, Westmount, Canada to Brown	3 February 1960
EC/1968/05	Burns, Benedict Delisle: certificate of election to the Royal Society
GLB/65/14/82	B Delisle Burns, Richmond, Surrey to Brown	18 October 1963
GLB/65/14/92	Brown to B Delisle Burns, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill	21 October 1966
IM/000684	Burns, Benedict Delisle	nd
GLB/65/14/83	Brown to B Delisle Burns, Richmond, Surrey	19 October 1963
GLB/65/14/91	B Delisle Burns, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill to Brown	21 October 1966
GLB/65/14/88	B Delisle Burns, Autonomics Division, National Physical Laboratory to Brown	1 February 1965
GLB/65/14/85	Brown to B Delisle Burns, Autonomics Division, National Physical Laboratory	29 October 1963
GLB/65/14/87	Brown to B Delisle Burns, Autonomics Division, National Physical Laboratory	29 January 1965
GLB/65/14/79	Brown to B Delisle Burns, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal	22 August 1961
GLB/65/14/89	B Delisle Burns, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal to Brown	6 May 1966
GLB/65/14/80	B Delisle Burns, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal to Brown	5 November 1962
GLB/65/14/86	B Delisle Burns, Autonomics Division, National Physical Laboratory to Brown	27 January 1965
GLB/65/14/90	Brown to B Delisle Burns, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal	16 May 1966
GLB/65/14/81	B Delisle Burns, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal to Brown	15 November 1962
GLB/65/14/84	B Delisle Burns, Autonomics Division, National Physical Laboratory to Brown	24 October 1963
RR/71/56	Referee's report by Archibald Vivian Hill, on a paper 'Fatigue and neuromuscular block in mammalian skeletal muscle' by George Lindor Brown and Benedict Delisle Burns	[1948]
GLB/65/14/78	B Delisle Burns, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal to Brown	28 July 1961
RR/71/57	Letter from Archibald Vivian Hill, to Edward Salisbury, regarding a paper 'Fatigue and neuromuscular block in mammalian skeletal muscle' by George Lindor Brown and Benedict Delisle Burns	30 August 1948

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