Gabriel Horn: Difference between revisions

'''Sir Gabriel Horn''', [[Doctor of Medicine#UKUnited Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries|MD]], [[ScD]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]],<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Brown | first1 = M. W. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2013.0016 | title = Sir Gabriel Horn 9 December 1927 -- 2 August 2012 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | year = 2013 | volume = 59 | pages = 157–170 | doi-access = free }}</ref> [[Royal College of Physicians|FRCP]] (9 December 1927 – 2 August 2012) was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[neuroscientist]] and Professor in [[Natural Sciences]] ([[Zoology]]) at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name="Cambridge University bio">{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Gabriel Horn|url=http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/people/person.html?crsid=gh105|publisher=[[Sidney Sussex College]], Cambridge University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515162853/http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/people/person.html?crsid=gh105 |archive-date=15 May 2012}}</ref> His research was into the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.

Horn's first academic position was in 1956 at the Department of Anatomy, [[University of Cambridge]] as a Demonstrator in Anatomy. He became a [[Lecturer]] and then a [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]], before leaving to become Professor of Anatomy at the [[University of Bristol]] in 1974.<ref name="Bristol DS" /> In 1975, while at Bristol, he obtained his [[Doctor of Science|DSc]] degree.<ref name="Bristol DS" />

In 1977, he returned to Cambridge to head the Department of Zoology. He retired in 1995 and was made [[Emeritusemeritus Professorprofessor]]. He was Master of [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]] from 1992 to 1999 and [[Deputy Vice-Chancellor]] of the university from 1994 to 1997.<ref name=Kings/><ref name="Bristol DS">{{cite web|title=Professor Sir Gabriel Horn, FRS - Doctor of Science|url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/graduation/honorary-degrees/hondeg03/horn.html|publisher=University of Bristol|access-date=30 June 2012|date=28 February 2011}}</ref>

He remained a fellow of Sidney Sussex College after 1999 until his death; he had earlier been a fellow of [[King's College, Cambridge]], and was elected a life fellow there in 1999.<ref name=Kings/>