Arnold Burgen

Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen, FRS (born 20 March 1922) is a retired British physician, pharmacologist, academic and university administrator. He was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge[1] from 1982–89, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The University of Cambridge from 1985–89, and founding President of the Academia Europæa.

Sir Arnold Burgen
Born	20 March 1922
Alma mater	Middlesex Hospital Medical School
Spouse(s)	Olga Kennard
Scientific career
Fields	Pharmacology
Institutions	McGill University University of Cambridge
Notable students	G. Marius Clore FRS

He is married to British crystallographer Olga Kennard.

Education

Burgen attended Christ's College Finchley, a grammar school in Finchley, north London. He was subsequently a student at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (now part of University College, London) becoming a Doctor of Medicine in 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

Burgen was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society in 1964,[2] Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1969, and was knighted in the 1976 New Year Honours. Burgen was elected a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 1987.[3] He became an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge in 1989.

References

1. "Europe unites its scholars of science". New Scientist. Reed Business Information. 119 (1631): 26. 22 September 1988. ISSN 0262-4079. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
2. "Arnold Burgen". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015.
3. "Arnold Burgen". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.