Arnold Burgen
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Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS (20 March 1922 – 26 May 2022) was a British physician, pharmacologist, academic and university administrator. He was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge,[1] from 1982–89, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The University of Cambridge from 1985–89, and founding President of the Academia Europæa.
Early life
Burgen was born in Clapton, East London. He attended Christ's College Finchley, a grammar school in Finchley, north London. He was subsequently a student at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School beginning in 1945; (now part of University College, London) before going on to become a Doctor of Medicine in 1950.[2]
Career
- House Physician, Middlesex Hospital, 1945; Demonstrator, 1945–48, Asst Lectr, 1948–49, in Pharmacology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School.
- Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, 1949–62; Deputy Director, University Clinic, Montreal General Hospital, 1957-62.
- Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, 1962–71; Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, 1962–71, Hon. Fellow 1972
- Director, National Institute for Medical Research, 1971-82.
- President, the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology 1972–75
Personal life
Burgen was married to British crystallographer Olga Kennard. He died on 26 May 2022, at the age of 100.[3]
Honours
Burgen was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society in 1964,[4] Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1969, and was knighted in the 1976 New Year Honours. Burgen was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 1987.[5] He became an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, in 1989. He was founding President and praesis perpetua honoris causa of Academia Europaea.
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- 1922 births
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- British pharmacologists
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- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Knights Bachelor
- Academic staff of McGill University
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Masters of Darwin College, Cambridge
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge
- Alumni of University College London
- People educated at Christ's College, Finchley
- British men centenarians
- Sheild Professors of Pharmacology
- People from the London Borough of Hackney