Andrew Crawford (neuroscientist)

Andrew Crawford
Born Andrew Charles Crawford
(1949-01-12) January 12, 1949[1]
Fields
Thesis The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances (1974)
Notable awards

Andrew Charles Crawford (born 1949)[1] FRS is a British neuroscientist. He is a Professor at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.[2][3]

Education

Crawford was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham and Downing College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970.[1] He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was awarded his PhD in 1974.[1][4]

Research

Crawford is known for his studies of the mechanism of hearing in vertebrates. In 1976, he and Robert Fettiplace developed a method of recording the electrical responses of hair cells in the isolated cochlea of reptiles. He has also published a series of important papers on neuromuscular transmission in frogs and crabs.[5]

Awards and honours

Crawford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 CRAWFORD, Prof. Andrew Charles. Who's Who 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Professor Andrew Crawford, University of Cambridge, retrieved 2016-03-07.
  3. ↑ "The Fellowship". Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Crawford, Andrew Charles (1974). The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances. (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500412643.
  5. 1 2 "Andrew Crawford". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2016)
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