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Colin Blakemore
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British neurobiologist (1944–2022)
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Colin Brian Blakemore (1944–2022) was a British neuroscientist, physiologist, and university teacher. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy under Horace Barlow and studied at Corpus Christi College, the University of California, Berkeley, and Magdalen College. He worked at the University of Warwick, Magdalen College, and the City University of Hong Kong. His research focused on neuroscience, neurobiology, ophthalmology, and visual perception.
Blakemore was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Europaea. He received the Michael Faraday Prize, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize, and the title of Knight Bachelor, and was a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He authored fourteen works, including *World Within the Brain*, *Development of the Cerebral Cortex*, *Vision*, *The roots of visual awareness*, and *Gender and society*. He died in Oxford and had three children, including Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- World Within the Brain
- Development of the Cerebral Cortex
- Vision
- The roots of visual awareness
- The roots of visual awareness
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1944
- Active to
- 2022
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 11
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Colin+Blakemore">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,630x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,854x
- RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,948x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias
· 1994 · cited 14,432x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Colin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Magdalen College
- Employer
- City University of Hong Kong
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Horace Barlow
- Field of work
- visual perception
- Official website
- scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/colin-blakemore(d49cb3c7-4485-43be-82ac-0483ed407c03).html
- Image
- Blakemore.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1944-06-01
- member of
- Academia Europaea
- date of death
- 2022-06-27
- name in native language
- Colin Brian Blakemore
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0