Honouring recently deceased Members of Academia Europaea#
‘Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society’ has just published its first 2024 volume
containing the latest collection of extended obituaries of recently deceased Fellows.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
has just published its first 2024 volume (76) containing the latest collection of extended obituaries of recently deceased Fellows. In the April 2024 issue, seven of the biographical memoirs are about Fellows who were also Members of Academia Europaea: Per Andersen, Michael Berridge, Colin Blakemore, Geoffrey Eglinton, David Weatherall, Lewis Wolpert and Andrew Wyllie. The biography of Sir Michael Berridge FRS MAE, a giant in the fields of physiology and biochemistry, who founded the important field of Calcium Signalling, has been written by the AE Cardiff Hub’s Academic Director, Ole Petersen FRS MAE.
Ole Petersen said:
“The substantial biographical memoirs published by the Royal Society do not only pay tribute to eminent scientists who changed their respective fields of research, but also provide important historical and scientific context. I was honoured to be invited to write the memoir of Mike Berridge, because I consider him to be one of the greatest of all the physiologists I have ever met. I was happy to be able to include a picture in this biography of Mike and his wife Susan (extreme right) together with Shimon Peres (extreme left), taken when Mike was awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize in Jerusalem in 1995. In the currently dark moment of the Israel-Gaza crisis, it is salutary to be reminded that there was a time when an Israeli Prime Minister worked to realise a great vision of peaceful coexistence with neighbouring countries (Peres had received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, together with Rabin and Arafat, shortly before Mike’s visit to Jerusalem). If Shimon Peres’ vision had prevailed, the Middle East would now have been a very different and much happier place.”
Posted on the 8th April 2024 by the Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub.
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