- Nevill Willmer
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Professor (Edward) Nevill Willmer, FRS (15 Aug 1902 – 8 Apr 2001) was sometime Professor of Histology at Cambridge University.
He was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of a cotton broker, and educated at Birkenhead School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1924). He was a demonstrator at Manchester University before being elected a Fellow of Clare College in 1936. Willmer was appointed Professor of Histology in 1966, and became Professor Emeritus in 1969. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960. [1]
Willmer's major work was a three-volume treatise on tissue culture, "Cells and Tissue in Culture: methods, biology and physiology", published in 1965. It was a significant compilation of the immense amount of labour that went into the process of exploring and satisfying the dietary and other requirements of cells and tissues that were grown in the laboratory. Other books he wrote included Waen and the Willmers, The Sallow Bush and several on Grantchester, where he retired to in 1969.
He was also an Artist, Oil Painting Landscapes, mainly in Cambridgeshire and Mid Wales. He also designed the Fellows Garden in Clare College as well as one or two others in Cambridge but the Fellows Garden is a lasting legacy of his vision.
He died in Grantchester in 2001. He had married in 1939 Henrietta "Penny" Rowlatt; they had two sons and two daughters.
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