Iain Campbell (biophysicist)

Iain Campbell
Born Iain Donald Campbell
(1941-04-24)24 April 1941
Perth, Scotland
Died 5 March 2014(2014-03-05) (aged 72)
England
Residence Summertown, Oxford
Citizenship United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields
Institutions University of Oxford
Alma mater University of St Andrews (BSc, PhD)
Thesis ESR Studies of Optically Excited States (1967)
Known for
Influenced Ewan Birney[1]
Notable awards

Iain Donald Campbell, FRS (24 April 1941 – 5 March 2014) was a Scottish biophysicist and academic. He was Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2009.[3][4][5][6][7]

Early life

Campbell was born on 24 April 1941 in Blackford, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.[3] He was the son of Daniel Campbell and Catherine Campbell (née Lauder).[8] He was educated at Perth Academy, a state school in Perth.[3] He went on to study physics at the University of St Andrews,[4] graduating in 1963.[9] He remained at St Andrews to under take post-graduate research and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in physics.[4] His doctoral advisor was Dirk Bijl,[3] and he undertook research under John F. Allen.[9]

Career

Iain Campbell worked briefly at the University of Bradford before moving to the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory of Oxford University in South Parks Road, Oxford, in 1967, to work with the chemist Sir Rex Richards.[10] Campbell became a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford in 1987 and Emeritus Research Fellow in 2009.

Awards and Honours

Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995.[10] He was a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation. He was awarded the Croonian Medal by the Royal Society and received honorary degrees from the University of Lund, University of Portsmouth and University of St Andrews. In 2006, he delivered the Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society.[2]

Personal life

Campbell married Karin Wehle in 1967.[10] They had two daughters (1968 and 1969) and a son (1973). The family lived in Summertown, north Oxford. Campbell died of bone cancer.

References

  1. ↑ Ewan Birney EBI ebi.ac.uk
  2. 1 2 Campbell, Iain D. (2008). "The Croonian lecture 2006 Structure of the living cell". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 (1502): 2379–91. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1960. PMC 1955230. PMID 17255009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Iain Campbell – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 "Professor Iain Campbell". The Times. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Sansom, M. S. (2014). "Iain Campbell — a personal recollection". Structure (London, England : 1993) 22 (4): 507–8. doi:10.1016/j.str.2014.03.009. PMID 24918233.
  6. ↑ Redfield, C (2014). "Iain D Campbell 1941-2014". Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 21 (5): 427–8. doi:10.1038/nsmb.2821. PMID 24799035.
  7. ↑ Sansom, M. S. P. (2014). "Iain Campbell — A Personal Recollection". Structure 22 (4): 507–8. doi:10.1016/j.str.2014.03.009. PMID 24918233.
  8. ↑ "Prof Iain Campbell: A pioneer of essential scientific techniques". Oxford Mail. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  9. 1 2 "Iain Campbell". The Herald. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  10. 1 2 3 "Professor Iain Campbell: Fellow of St John's College and distinguished scientist". The Oxford Times. 20 March 2014. p. 45. |section= ignored (help)
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