Car crash tragedy
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A tragic car crash has killed two distinguished British researchers. Dame Anne McLaren and Professor Donald Michie died when their car came off the motorway between Cambridge and London last month. Anne McLaren was a leading geneticist who became the first female official of the Royal Society and Michie was a researcher in artificial intelligence who worked as part of the British codebreaking group at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. McLaren was also a fellow of King’s College and Christ’s College, Cambridge, and a member of the Warnock Commission that advised the British government on ethical issues on the use of genetics. Michie had helped to solve Tunny, a German teleprinter cipher during the war, and was director of the University of Edinburgh’s department of machine intelligence and perception. Anne McLaren was born in 1927, the daughter of Henry McLaren, second Lord Aberconway, and his wife Christabel. The Aberconways were industrial magnates known for their devotion to Liberal politics and women’s suffrage. She came to fame with work in 1958 with her colleague John Biggers at University College London, where they managed the first successful birth of mice that had been grown outside the mother’s body for 24 hours. This achievement represented a huge leap in understanding that led to the birth of the first test-tube baby in 1978. She became head of the Medical Research Council’s mammalian development unit in 1974. She was foreign secretary of the Royal Society from 1991 to 1996; president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1993; and Fullerian professor of physiology at the An accident last month killed two of Britain’s most distinguished researchers. Nigel Williams reports. Car crash tragedy
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007