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Sir Colin Brian Blakemore, (born 1 June 1944), is a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain, who is Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). He is best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to ''The Observer'', he has been both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".〔McKie, Robin. ("Scientist who stood up to terrorism and mob hate faces his toughest test" ). ''The Observer'', 14 September 2003.〕 ==Background== Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1944,〔(Prof Colin Blakemore portrait ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 26 June 2008〕 he was educated at King Henry VIII School〔(), ''NewStatesman'', 28 February 2008〕 in Coventry and then won a state scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,〔 England, where he gained a first-class degree in medical sciences. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Physiological Optics at the University of California, Berkeley,〔 in the United States, as a Harkness Fellow in 1968.〔(Colin Blakemore FMedSci FRCP (Hon) FIBiol (Hon) FRS )〕 From 1968 to 1979 he was a Demonstrator and then Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Cambridge, and was also Director of Medical Studies at Downing College. From 1976 to 1979 he held the Royal Society Locke Research Fellowship. He was appointed Waynflete Professor of Physiology and a Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in 1979, at the age of 35. He was also Director of the James S. McDonnell and Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He has served as President of the Biosciences Federation, now the Society of Biology, the British Neuroscience Association and the Physiological Society, and as President and Chairman of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, now the British Science Association. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Institute of Biology, the British Pharmacological Society, the Society of Biology, and of Corpus Christi College and Downing College, University of Cambridge. In 2012 he was appointed director of the Institute of Philosophy's Centre for the Study of the Senses at the School of Advanced Study in London. He also holds a Honorary Professorship at the University of Warwick, and a Professorship at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore, where he was Chairman and then External Scientific Advisor to the Neuroscience Research Partnership. Blakemore is a Distinguished Supporter〔http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/people/distinguished-supporters/Professor-Colin-Blakemore〕 of the British Humanist Association and an Honorary Associate〔http://newhumanist.org.uk/2043/board-of-trustees-and-supporters〕 of the Rationalist Association. In July 2001 he was one of the signatories to a letter published in The Independent which urged the Government to reconsider its support for the expansion of maintained religious schools,〔 and he was one of the 43 scientists and philosophers who signed and sent a letter to Tony Blair and relevant Government departments, concerning the teaching of Creationism in schools in March 2002.〔http://www.humanism.org.uk/_uploads/documents/LettertoTonyBlair2002-03-26Creationism.pdf〕 He was also one of the signatories to a letter supporting a holiday on Charles Darwin’s birthday,〔http://www.humanism.org.uk/_uploads/documents/DSletteronDarwinDay.pdf〕 published in The Times on 12 February 2003, and sent to the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary.〔 Blakemore has been honoured for his scientific achievements with prizes from many academies and societies, including the Royal Society, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, the French Académie Nationale de Médecine, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the BioIndustry Association and the Royal College of Physicians. In 1993 he received the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine and in 1996 he won the Alcon Research Institute Award for research relevant to clinical ophthalmology. He has ten Honorary Degrees from British and overseas universities and is a foreign member of several academies of science, including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of India, the Indian Academy of Neurosciences, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He won the 2010 Royal Society Ferrier Award and Lecture. In 2001 he received the British Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience, and in 2012 the Ralph W. Gerard Prize,〔http://www.sfn.org/Press-Room/News-Release-Archives/2012/Ralph-W-Gerard-Prize-in-Neuroscience-Recognizes-Outstanding-Contributions-of-Colin-Blakemore〕 the highest award of the Society for Neuroscience. He chairs the Selection Committee for The Brain Prize of Grete Lundbeck's European Brain Research Prize Foundation,〔http://www.thebrainprize.org/〕 the world's most valuable prize for neuroscience (€1 million). Blakemore first visited China in 1974, during the Cultural Revolution, and collaborated in research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Biophysics, Beijing, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His efforts to develop scientific relations between the United Kingdom and China were recognised in 2012 when he received the Friendship Award, the People's Republic of China's highest award for "foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country's economic and social progress". In 2012 he was appointed a Master of the Beijing DeTao Masters Academy. Despite a serious illness in his teens, Blakemore developed a lifelong interest in fitness and sport, especially long-distance running. He has completed 18 marathons and won the veteran's section for the British team at the Athens Centenary Marathon in 1996. Blakemore is married, to Andrée Washbourne, whom he met when they were both 15.〔〔 They have three daughters.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Blakemore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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