Bill Harris (neuroscientist) explained
| Bill Harris |
| Birth Date: | 26 November 1950 |
| Field: | neuroscience |
| Awards: | Fellow of the Royal Society (2007), Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007), Elected Member of EMBO (20120; Waddington Medal (2017) |
| Thesis Title: | Color Vision in Drosophila |
| Thesis Url: | http://search.proquest.com/docview/302819266 |
| Thesis Year: | 1976 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Seymour Benzer
David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel (postdoc) |
William Anthony Harris (born November 26, 1950) FRS FMedSci is a Canadian-born neuroscientist, Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge University, and fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He was head of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience[1] since its formation in 2006 [2] until his retirement in 2018.
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007,[3] a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2007,[4] and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2012.[5] In 2017, he was awarded the Waddington Medal[6] by the British Society for Developmental Biology[7] for his work on the development of the visual system.[8]
Bibliography
- Book: Harris, W. A. . 2022-05-24 . Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built . Princeton, New Jersey . Princeton University Press . 978-0691211312.
External links
- http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/harris/
- http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?harris
- http://thenode.biologists.com/waddington2017/societies/
- https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211312/zero-to-birth
Notes and References
- http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk
- Web site: Harris, Prof. William Anthony, (Born 26 Nov. 1950), Professor of Anatomy, 1997–2018, now Emeritus, and Head, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, 2006–18, Cambridge University; Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge, since 1997.
- http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/ Fellows of the Royal Society
- Web site: Fellows | the Academy of Medical Sciences.
- Web site: Members . 2014-08-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160509193526/http://www.embo.org/members . 2016-05-09 .
- Web site: The Waddington Medal.
- http://bsdb.org
- Web site: Bill Harris, winner of the BSDB Waddington Medal 2017. 13 April 2017.
