Andrew Crawford (neuroscientist)

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Andrew Crawford
Born
Andrew Charles Crawford

(1949-01-12) 12 January 1949 (age 74) [1]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Thesis The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances  (1974)
Website www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?ac151

Andrew Charles Crawford (born 1949) [1] FRS is a British neuroscientist. He is a professor at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. [2] [3]

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Education

Crawford was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham and Downing College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. [1] He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was awarded his PhD in 1974. [1] [4]

Research

Crawford is known for his studies of the mechanism of hearing in vertebrates. In 1976, he and Robert Fettiplace developed a method of recording the electrical responses of hair cells in the isolated cochlea of reptiles. He has also published a series of important papers on neuromuscular transmission in frogs and crabs. [5]

Awards and honours

Crawford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "CRAWFORD, Prof. Andrew Charles" . Who's Who . Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press  ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Professor Andrew Crawford, University of Cambridge, retrieved 2016-03-07.
  3. "The Fellowship". Trinity College, Cambridge. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  4. Crawford, Andrew Charles (1974). The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC   500412643.
  5. 1 2 "Andrew Crawford". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)