Paul Fatt
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Paul Fatt | |
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| File:Paul Fatt neuroscientist.png | |
| Born | 13 January 1924 |
| Died | 28 September 2014 (aged 90) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Thesis | Neuro-muscular transmission (1950) |
| Influences | Bernard Katz John Eccles[1] |
| Influenced | Jonathan Ashmore[2] |
Paul Fatt FRS (13 January 1924 – 28 September 2014) was a British neuroscientist, who was a professor at University College London.[3] With Bernard Katz, he developed the "quantal hypothesis" for neurotransmitters.[4][5][6]
Personal life
Paul married three times: Ione Copplestone (1926-2016) with whom he had three children: Michael (1954), Laura (1955), Harriet (1957); Gertrude Falk (1926–2008) with whom he had one child, Ilsa;[7] and Carla Wartenberg fom 1985 till his death.
References
- ^ "Paul Fatt Neurotree - The Neuroscience Academic Family Tree".
- ^ Ashmore, Jonathan Felix (2016). "Paul Fatt. 13 January 1924 — 28 September 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. London. 62: 167–186. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0005. ISSN 0080-4606.
- ^ Ashmore, Jonathan (2013). "An interview with Paul Fatt" (PDF). physoc.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
- ^ "Sir Bernard Katz Award". Biophysical Society.
- ^ Cull-Candy, Stuart; Ashmore, Jonathan (2014). "Paul Fatt 1924–2014". Nature Neuroscience. 17 (12): 1634. doi:10.1038/nn.3873. ISSN 1546-1726. PMID 25413090.
- ^ Anon (2014). "Paul Fatt obituary 1924-2014" (PDF). discovery.ucl.ac.uk.[dead link]
- ^ Joffe, Lawrence (1 April 2008). "Gertrude Falk". The Guardian.
Jonathan F. Ashmore, PAUL FATT 13 January 1924 — 28 September 2014, in: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2016.0005
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