Nigel Unwin

Neuroscientist
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IntroNeuroscientist
PlacesUnited Kingdom
isNeuroscientist Educator
Work fieldAcademia Science
Gender
Male
Birth1 November 1942
Age82 years
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Biography

Nigel Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin FRS is a British neuroscientist, Emeritus Scientist, and was Joint Head of Neurobiology Division, Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 2003 until 2008. He is currently Professor of Cell Biology at the Scripps Research Institute.

Life

Nigel Unwin was born in New Zealand. He earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was a scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, from 1968 to 1980. He was Professor of Cell Biology at Stanford University, from 1980 to 1988.

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Honors

Unwin was elected to the Royal Society in 1983. His other honors include the Rosenstiel Award for Basic Medical Research (1991), the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1996),the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography (1999), and the Royal Society Croonian Lecture and Medal (2000).

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