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Authorised form of nameCowan; William Maxwell (1931 - 2002)
Dates1931 - 2002
NationalityBritish
Place of birthJohannesburg, South Africa
Date of birth27/09/1931
Date of death30/06/2002
ActivityCareer:
Doctorate at Oxford under W LeGros Clark (from 1953); moved to University of Wisconsin (1966); moved to Department if Anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis; editor of Jounal of Comparative Neurology (from 1969); moved to Salk Institute (1980), vice-president (1982-1986); inaugural editor of the Journal of Neuroscience (from 1982); appointed to Medical Advisory Board of HHMI (1984); Vice president and chief scientific officer of HHMI (from 1988)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/03/1982
Age at election50
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of the Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 54, 2008, pp 117-136
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/30144814339317418373
CodeNA4026
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/000967Cowan, William Maxwellnd
EC/1982/10Cowan, William Maxwell: certificate of election to the Royal Society1980
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