Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
NameJohn Murdoch MITCHISON FRS FRSE, 9435
Birth1922
Death2011
MotherNaomi Mary Margaret HALDANE CBE , 9437 (1897-1999)
Spouses
Birth1919
Death2002
Father(Edwin) Murray WRONG , 9410 (1925-2012)
MotherRosalind Grace SMITH , 9398 (1892-1984)
Marriage1947
Notes for John Murdoch MITCHISON FRS FRSE
John Murdoch Mitchison FRS, FRSE (11 June 1922, Oxford – 17 March 2011, Edinburgh) was a British zoologist, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi (née Haldane).[1][2] The biologist J.B.S. Haldane was his uncle, and the physiologist John Scott Haldane was his maternal grandfather. His elder brother is the bacteriologist Denis Mitchison, and his younger brother is the zoologist Avrion Mitchison. His wife was the historian Rosalind Mitchison.

Murdoch Mitchison went to Winchester College and Trinity College in Cambridge, and later became Professor of Zoology at Edinburgh University in 1963 after working there for a decade.[4] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1978.[5] Considered a pioneer in the area of cellular biology, Mitchison developed the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a model system to study the mechanisms and kinetics of growth and the cell cycle.[6][7][8] He was an academic advisor to the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology recipient Paul Nurse.[9]
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