Susan Greenfield

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Baroness Susan Adele Greenfield, CBE[1] (born 1950) is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield's specialty is the physiology of the brain, and has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Greenfield is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and Director of the Royal Institution.[2] On February 1, 2006, she was installed as Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

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Baroness Greenfield was born in the west London borough of Hammersmith to Doris (Thorp) and Myer Reginald Greenfield, a machine operator, whose parents were Austrian and Russian.[3] Greenfield attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and was the first member of her family to go on to university, at St Hilda's College, Oxford.[4]

Greenfield's research is focused on brain physiology, particularly the etiology of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, but she is best known as a populariser of science. Greenfield has written several popular-science books about the brain and consciousness, and regularly gives public lectures, and appears on radio and television. In 1994, she was invited to be the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture, then sponsored by the BBC.[2] Her lecture was titled "The Brain". From 1995 to 1999, she gave public lectures as Gresham Professor of Physic.

Greenfield created three research and biotechnology companies: Synaptica, BrainBoost, and Neurodiagnostics, which research neuronal diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

As well as several honorary degrees, Greenfield has been awarded the Royal Society's Faraday medal, and in January 2000, received the CBE for her contributions to the public understanding of science.[1] In 2003, she was given the French Légion d'honneur, and in June of 2001, she was created a life peer, as Baroness Greenfield, of Otmoor, in the County of Oxfordshire.[1]

Greenfield was married to an Oxford University Professor of Physical Chemistry, Peter Atkins, but divorced in 2005.[citation needed]

  • Greenfield, Susan (1995). Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 236 pages. ISBN 0-7167-2723-4. 
  • Greenfield, Susan (1997). The Human Brain: A Guided Tour (Science Masters Series). New York: Basic Books, 160 pages. ISBN 0-465-00726-0. 
  • Greenfield, Susan (2002). The Private Life of the Brain (Penguin Press Science). London, England: Penguin Books Ltd, 272 pages. ISBN 0-14-100720-6. 
  • Greenfield, Susan (2003). Tomorrow's People: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way we Think and Feel. London: Allen Lane, 304 pages. ISBN 0-7139-9631-5. 
  • Greenfield, Susan (2006). Inside the Body. London: Cassell Illustrated, 288 pages. ISBN 184403500X. 

  1. ^ a b c House of Lords (2001). Minutes and Order Paper - Minutes of Proceedings (English). UK Parliament House of Lords. Retrieved on October 27, 2007.
  2. ^ a b The Royal Institution of Great Britain (2007). Baroness Susan Greenfield (English). The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Retrieved on October 27, 2007.
  3. ^ The Telegraph (2006). Family Detective (English). Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved on October 27, 2007.
  4. ^ British Council on Science (2007). Baroness Greenfield (English). British Council on Science. Retrieved on October 27, 2007.

Preceded by
Peter Day		 Director of the Royal Institution
1998–Present		 Succeeded by
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