Arnold Burgen

Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen ( born March 20, 1922) is a former professor of pharmacology at the University of Cambridge.

He also served as director of the National Research Institute for Medicine ( MRC National Institute for Medical Research ( NIMR ), UK) and founding president of the Academia Europaea. He was interested in the interaction of drugs with enzymes, which he explored using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The center for biomedical nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( MRC Biomedical NMR Centre) was opened under his direction in 1980.

Career

Sir Arnold Burgen began his career in 1945 in the House Physician to the Middlesex Hospital. Starting this year, he worked until 1948 as in the area of the demonstration. Then he went a year ago according to the activity as an assistant lecturer in the field of pharmacology at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. From 1949 to 1962 was the Englishman, Professor of Physiology at McGill University in Montreal. In 1957 he was appointed Deputy Director of the University Hospital, the Montreal General Hospital. From 1962 he was Shield professor of pharmacology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and Hon Fellow in 1972. From 1971-82 castles director of the National Institute for Medical Research was. In 1982, he served as Master of Darwin College, Cambridge until 1989 he worked there. In 1984 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. From 1985-89, the professor was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In 1988 he was elected founding president of the Academia Europaea.

Honors

• Fellow of the Royal Society, 1964
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1969
• Knight, 1976.