Colin Blakemore

Sir Colin Blakemore FRS FMedSci HonFRCP HonFRSM FRSB FBPhS
Blakemore in 2012
Born	Colin Brian Blakemore (1944-06-01)1 June 1944 Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Died	27 June 2022(2022-06-27) (aged 78) Oxford, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Spouse	Andrée Elizabeth Washbourne ​ ​ (m. 1965; died 2022)​ [2]
Children	3, including Sarah-Jayne Blakemore[3]
Scientific career
Fields	Neurobiology Ophthalmology
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Oxford University of Warwick Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School University of London
Thesis	Binocular Interaction in Animals and Man (1968)
Doctoral advisor	Horace Barlow
Doctoral students	J. Anthony Movshon[1]

Sir Colin Blakemore, FRS, FMedSci, HonFRCP, HonFRSM, FRSB, FBPhS (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study at City University of Hong Kong. He was a distinguished senior fellow in the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a past Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC).^[4][5][6] He was best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to The Observer, he was both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".^[7]