Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Professor Richard Gregory
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Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field: Professor Richard Gregory was born in London on 24 July 1923 and studied at the University of Cambridge before undertaking research at the Medical Research Council's Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge. A turning point in Professor Gregory's work and ideas came during the investigation of a man who had been...
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