John Mollon

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John Mollon
Born
John Dixon Mollon

(1944-09-12) 12 September 1944 (age 81)
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Website vision.psychol.cam.ac.uk/jdmollon/

Professor John Dixon Mollon DSc FRS. [1] (born 12 September 1944) [2] is a British scientist. He is a leading researcher in visual neuroscience. His work has been cited over 15,000 times. [3]

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Early life

Education

Having graduated in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Mollon remained at the university for his DPhil. He later received a DSc, also from Oxford. [4]

Career

Mollon was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1976, a position which he held until 1993. He was then a Reader until 1998, at which point he became Professor of Visual Neuroscience. [2]

He became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1996; in 2011 he became a Distinguished Teaching Fellow. [2] He has been the President of the Fellows of the College since 2013. [5] The President "is the elected senior representative of the College's Fellows and deputizes for the Master where necessary" [6]

He has previously served as the Chairman of the Colour Group of Great Britain; the Honorary Secretary of the Experimental Psychology Society; and the President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He has been the President of the International Colour Vision Society since 2011. [2]

He was the principal developer of the Cambridge Colour Test, and supervised the collection of the Cambridge database of natural spectra. [7]

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 List of Fellows of the Royal Society
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Authorised entry in Debretts
  3. ↑ Google Citations
  4. ↑ "Mollon, John — Medicine | Caius College Cambridge". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2014. Gonville and Caius list of the current Master and Fellows
  5. ↑ Article from the Gonville and Caius website
  6. ↑ List of College Officers at Gonville and Caius
  7. ↑ "Cambridge database of natural spectra". University of Cambridge: Vision Lab. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  8. ↑ Web page of the University of Durham