Arnold Burgen

Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS (born 20 March 1922) was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge^[1] 1982-89 (Hon. Fellow, 1989), Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University, 1985–89, and founding President of the Academia Europæa.

He is married to Olga Kennard.

Education

• Christ's College Finchley
• Student, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 1939–45; MB BS 1945, MD 1950.

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

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Society, 1964; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1969; Knight, 1976.

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