Andrew Crawford (neuroscientist) explained

Andrew Crawford
Birth Name:	Andrew Charles Crawford
Birth Date:	12 January 1949
Thesis Title:	The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances
Thesis Year:	1974
Thesis Url:	http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.452520
Fields:	Cellular neuroscience Molecular neuroscience Computational neuroscience

Andrew Charles Crawford (born 1949) is a British neuroscientist. He is a professor at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.^{[1] [2]}

Education

Crawford was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham and Downing College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was awarded his PhD in 1974.^[3]

Research

Crawford is known for his studies of the mechanism of hearing in vertebrates. In 1976, he and Robert Fettiplace developed a method of recording the electrical responses of hair cells in the isolated cochlea of reptiles. He has also published a series of important papers on neuromuscular transmission in frogs and crabs.

Awards and honours

Crawford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ac151 Professor Andrew Crawford
2. Web site: The Fellowship. Trinity College, Cambridge. 7 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160307234937/http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellowship-0. 2016-03-07. dead.
3. PhD. University of Cambridge. The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances.. Andrew Charles. Crawford. 1974. 500412643.
4. Web site: Andrew Crawford . . London . One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License."Web site: Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies . 2016-03-09 . bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20160220093712/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ . 2016-02-20 .