Person Mitchison; John Murdoch (1922 - 2011) Mitchison John Murdoch 1922 - 2011 British Male Oxford, Oxfordshire, England 11/06/1922 19220611 17/03/2011 20110317

Zoologist Education: Winchester College and Trinity College in Cambridge Career: Murdoch Mitchinson went to and later became Professor of Zoology at Edinburgh University in 1963 after working there for a decade. Considered a pioneer in the area of cellular biology, Mitchinson developed the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a model system to study the mechanisms and kinetics of growth and the cell cycle.] He was an academic advisor to the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology recipient Paul Nurse. Son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi (née Haldane); maternal nephew of biologist J.B.S. Haldane (FRS 1932); maternal grandson of physiologist John Scott Haldane (FRS 1897); younger brother of the bacteriologist Denis Mitchison; elder brother of the zoologist Avrion Mitchison; married Rosalind Mitchison, historian Fellow 16/03/1978 55 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 11 Jun 1922 - NA3994 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes dff0695e-cb77-42d4-b3ea-b7015a52987c