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Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938)〔‘ROSE, Prof. Steven Peter Russell’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 (accessed 6 Aug 2013 )〕 is emeritus Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London. ==Early life and education== Born in London, United Kingdom, Rose studied biochemistry at King's College, Cambridge, and neurobiology at Cambridge and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.〔(Biography at ''The Moral Maze''. )〕 When he was appointed to the professorship of biology at the newly instituted Open University in 1969 he was Britain's youngest full professor and chair of department. At the Open University he established the Brain Research Group, within which he and his colleagues investigated the biological processes involved in memory formation and treatments for Alzheimer's Disease on which he has published some 300 research papers and reviews. He has written several popular science books and regularly writes for ''The Guardian'' newspaper. From 1999 to 2002, he gave public lectures as Professor of Physick (Genetics and Society) at Gresham College, London. His work has won him numerous medals and prizes including the Biochemical Society medal for communication in science and the prestigious Edinburgh Medal. His book ''The Making of Memory'' won the Science Book Prize in 1993.〔http://www.stevenroseonline.net/SPRR/Long_bio_.html〕 In 2012 the British Neuroscience Association gave him a lifetime award for "Outstanding contributions to neuroscience." His younger brother is Nikolas Rose, professor of sociology at the LSE. He is married to the sociologist Hilary Rose with whom he shared the Gresham professorship, and with whom he has written and edited a number of books including ''Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology'' and, in 2012, ''Genes, Cells and Brains: the Promethean promises of the new biology'' (Verso), described by Guardian reviewer Steven Poole as 'fascinating, lucid and angry' with a 'lethally impressive hit ratio.' Growing up as an Orthodox Jew, Rose says that he decided to become an atheist when he was eight years old. 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「Steven Rose」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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