Authorised form of name | Marshall; Christopher John (1949 - 2015) |
Dates | 1949 - 2015 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Birmingham |
Date of birth | 19/01/1949 |
Date of death | 08/08/2015 |
Occupation | Astronomer |
Research field | Cancer research |
Activity | Education: King Henry VIII School, Coventry. Churchill College, Cambridge; Lincoln college Oxford for D.Phil. Career: Imperial Cancer Resewrch Fund in Lpondon; Sidney Farber (now Dana-Farber) Cancer Institute in Boston, USA,then bakc to UK to work for the Imperial Cancer Researdch Fund. Most significant achievement the identification of a human oncogene, a normal gene present in each cell that mutates and triggers cancer.
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 09/03/1995 |
Age at election | 46 |
RSActivity | Medals and prizes: Buchanan Medal 2008 for his outstanding contribution to understanding how cancers develop and in the identification of major targets for their therapeutic treatment. |
Relationships | married in 1973 Vivien Morrall, divorced 1997, 3 children Joe, Lucy and Francis; in 2005, Lesley Ford |
Code | NA4576 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
IM/002985 | Marshall, Christopher John | 1995 |
EC/1995/18 | Marshall, Christopher John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1993 |