Nevill Willmer

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Professor (Edward) Nevill Willmer, FRS, (1902-2001) was sometime Professor of Histology at Cambridge University.

Born in Liverpool and educated at Birkenhead School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A. 1924), he demonstrated at Manchester University before being elected a Fellow of Clare College in 1936. Willmer was appointed Professor of Histology in 1966, and became Professor Emeritus in 1969. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960.

Willmer's major work was a three-volume treatise on tissue culture, 'Cells and Tissue in Culture: methods, biology and physiology', published in 1965. It was a significant compilation of the immense amount of labour that went into the process of exploring and satisfying the dietary and other requirements of cells and tissues that were grown in the laboratory.