| Authorised form of name | Willmer; Edward Nevill (1902 - 2001) |
| Dates | 1902 - 2001 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Birkenhead, Cheshire, England |
| Date of birth | 15/08/1902 |
| Place of death | Grantchester, Cambridgeshire |
| Date of death | 08/04/2001 |
| Research field | Biology |
| Histology |
| Activity | Education:
Birkenhead School; Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Career:
Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer in physiology, Manchester University (1924-1929); Lecturer in Histology, Cambridge University (1930-1948); Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1936); redesigned the garden of Clare College and used it to demonstrate his theories on colour perception and vision (1945); Reader (1948-1965); Professor (ad hominen), Cambridge (1966)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 24/03/1960 |
| Age at election | 57 |
| Relationships | Son of a cotton broker of Liverpool; married (1939) Henrietta "Penny" Rowlatt; two sons, two daughters |
| Source | Sources:
Obituaries: Times (23/04/2001), Independent (04/07/2001) |
| Code | NA5763 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| GLB/65/110/119 | E N Willmer, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 11 November 1958 |
| GLB/65/110/123 | E N Willmer, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 17 February 1961 |
| GLB/65/110/121 | E N Willmer, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge to Brown | 13 February 1961 |
| GLB/65/110/122 | Brown to E N Willmer, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge | 13 February 1961 |
| GLB/65/110/120 | Brown to E N Willmer, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge | 27 November 1958 |
| IM/GA/WRS/8703 | Willmer, Edward Nevill | nd |
| EC/1960/25 | Willmer, Edward Nevill: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/37/871 | Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to W [William] Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 May 1908 |