- Arnold Burgen
Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS (born
20 March ,1922 ) was Master ofDarwin College, Cambridge 1982-89 (Hon. Fellow, 1989), Deputy Vice-Chancellor,Cambridge University , 1985-89, and founding President of theAcademia Europæa .He is married to
Olga Kennard .Education
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Christ's College Finchley
*Student,Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 1939-45; MB BS 1945, MD 1950.Career
*House Physician, Middlesex Hospital, 1945; Demonstrator, 1945-48, Asst Lectr, 1948-49, in Pharmacology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
*Professor of Physiology,McGill University ,Montreal , 1949-62; Deputy Director, University Clinic, Montreal General Hospital, 1957-62.
*Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, 1962-71; Fellow ofDowning College, Cambridge , 1962-71, Hon. Fellow 1972
*Director, National Institute for Medical Research, 1971-82.Honours
Fellow of the
Royal Society , 1964; Fellow of theRoyal College of Physicians , 1969; Knight, 1976.
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