- Rodney Cotterill
Rodney Michael John Cotterill
Order of the Dannebrog (27 September ,1933 –24 June ,2007 [Cite news
author =Henrik G. Bohr , Claus H. Nielsen, Bjørn G. Nielsen
title = En idérig, originial forsker
language = Danish
publisher =FuresøAvis
date = 2007-07-03
pages = 15] ) was a English-Danish physicist, and neuroscientist, who was educated atUniversity College London (B.Sc., 1st),Yale (M.S.) andCambridge University (Ph.D.). He spent most of his career as aprofessor atTechnical University of Denmark , Denmark, (1967-) after having spent five years as a researcher at theArgonne National Laboratory .Cotterill was a prolific scientist who published over two hundred highly-cited papers and books on a variety of topics in physics, biology and medicine. His initial research was in
materials science , which was of such a high standard that he was subsequently elected to theRoyal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters . He became gradually more interested inbiophysics , and especially thehuman brain , where he subsequently made important contributions to the study ofconsciousness .He was awarded Knight, first class of the Dannebrog in 1994 and given an honorary D.Sc. in 1973 by London University in
materials science . Cotterill was a Fellow of theInstitute of Physics (U.K.) (1967), Fellow, Danish Academy of Technical Science (1974-, Presidium, 1985-7) and a Fellow of theRoyal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1984-, Presidium 1990-6). He was awarded the Hans and Ellen Hermer Memorial Prize in 1978 for his pioneering work in computer simulation.His lectures at the Technical University of Denmark in Biophysics and Brain-Physics were popular among students. In 2001 he received the "Lecturer of the Year" award, nominated by students. [http://www.polytechphotos.dk/index.php?CHGLAN=2&CatID=1863&PicID=1543]
Cotterill wrote widely for the general public and his first book "The Cambridge Guide to the Material World" was published to great critical acclaim.
Rodney Cotterill was born in
Bodmin ,Cornwall , nearJamaica Inn , England. In 1959, he married the Dane Vibeke Ejler Nielsen with whom he had two children Marianne and Jennifer, of which the former is a soprano singer.Books by Cotterill
* Cotterill, R.M.J. (ed.), "Computer Simulation in Brain Science",
Cambridge University Press , 1988. ISBN 978-0521341790
* Cotterill, R.M.J. "Autism, Intelligence and Consciousness", Munksgaard, 1994.
* Cotterill, R.M.J. (ed.), "Models of Brain Function",Cambridge University Press , 1990. ISBN 978-0521385039
* Cotterill, R.M.J., "Biophysics : An Introduction",Wiley , 2002. ISBN 978-0471485384.Books for the general public
* Cotterill, R.M.J., "The Cambridge Guide to the Material World",
Cambridge University Press , 1985. ISBN
* Cotterill, R.M.J., "No ghost in the machine: Modern science and the brain, the mind, and the soul", Heinemann, 1989. ISBN 978-0434146079
* Cotterill, R.M.J., "Enchanted Looms : Conscious networks in brains and computer",Cambridge University Press , 1998. ISBN 978-0521794626.
* Cotterill, R.M.J., "The Material World",Cambridge University Press , 2007, in press.Published Scientific Articles
* Cite journal
author = Cotterill, R.M.J.
title = Cooperation of the basal ganglia, cerebellum, sensory cerebrum and hippocampus: possible implications for cognition, consciousness, intelligence and creativity
journal =Progress in Neurobiology
volume = 64
issue = 1
year = 2001
month = May
pages = 1–33
doi = 10.1016/S0301-0082(00)00058-7References
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