Richard G. Morris
Richard Graham Michael Morris ( born 1948 ) is a British neuroscientist. He is known for the development of the Morris water maze, one of the currently most widely used learning tasks for rodents, and for his work on the function of the hippocampus. He is currently Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems ( CCNS ) in Edinburgh and the Wolfson Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1997 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Morris was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007. For 2013, the program of Neuronal Plasticity Prize was awarded.