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Authorised form of nameMerton; Patrick Anthony (1920 - 2000)
Dates1920 - 2000
NationalityBritish
Date of birth08/10/1920
Place of deathCambridge
Date of death13/06/2000
OccupationPhysiologist
Research fieldNeurophysiology
ActivityEducation:
Beaumont; Trinity College Cambridge; St Thomas' Hospital, London (graduated 1946)
Career:
MRC Neurological Research Unit, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square (1951); laboratory of Ragnar Granit, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (1952-1954); Lecturer in Physiology, Cambridge University (1957-1977); Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1962-2000); Reader, Cambridge (1977-1984); Professor of Human Physiology (1984-1988)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1979
Age at election58
RelationshipsMarried (1951) Gabriel Howe; four children
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 189-201, plate, by John Rothwell and Ian Glynn
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/212145003315261301023
CodeNA4592
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1979/25Merton, Patrick Anthony: certificate of election to the Royal Society1976
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