Obituaries
A scroll through these entries illustrates the tremendous achievements that physiologists have achieved over many generations. Their valuable contributions to the discipline benefit us all.
This page provides brief notices on the deaths of Society Members as soon as we hear about them. Full PDF obituaries are presented where available.
Notices of death 2025
Professor Evelyne Sernagor (March 2025)
Notices of death 2024
Brian Harvey (December 2024)
Roger Thomas (December 2024)
Christopher Charles Michel (July 2024)
Thomas Bolton (May 2024)
Robert Martin (March 2024)
Sheila Jennett (March 2024)
Tom Sears (February 2024)
Notices of death 2023
Robert Henderson (December 2023)
David Brown (October 2023)
Ronald Whittam (August 2023)
Cecil Kidd (July 2023)
David Begley (July 2023)
John G Nicholls (July 2023)
Jeanette Erdmann (July 2023)
Andrew Packard (June 2023)
KW Ranatunga (May 2023)
Gavin Pinniger (April 2023)
Ann Margaret Alderson (April 2023)
Ann Silver (March 2023)
Roger Ramsbottom (February 2023)
Kenneth Page (January 2023)
Notices of death 2022
Philippe Ascher (October 2022)
Tony Macknight (July 2022)
Ian Glynn (July 2022)
Sir Colin Blakemore (June 2022)
Sheila Gardiner(March 2022)
Richard Hellon (February 2022)
Harald Reuter (February 2022)
Kevin Tipton (January 2022)
Anthony Ridge (January 2022)
Notices of death 2021
Malcolm Roberts (December 2021)
Piers C.G. Nye (December 2021)
Derek Bergel (December 2021)
Mark Dunne (December 2021)
K A Paul Edman (December 2021)
Hisako Ikeda-Wolstencroft (December 2021)
David Ogden (December 2021)
Lars Ole Simonsen (November 2021)
John Morrison (September 2021)
Jere Mitchell (July 2021)
Frederick Noel Fastier (July 2021)
Edward Carmeliet (April 2021)
Notices of death 2020
Frank-Bowser Riley (December 2020)
Otto Hutter (November 2020)
Jan Lännergren (October 2020)
Leslie Iversen (July 2020)
Bernard T. Donovan (July 2020)
Edward M Winter (July 2020)
Horace B Barlow (July 2020)
Ronan O’Regan (July 2020)
Henry Michael Snow (June 2020).
Geoffrey Burnstock (June 2020)
Alan Williams (May 2020)
Gerhard Giebisch (April 2020)
Nicholas Standen (April 2020)
Peter B C Matthews (March 2020)
Michael Berridge (February 2020)
John Bligh (January 2020)
David A Johns (January 2020)
Notices of death 2019
Paul M Vanhoutte (August 2019)
Thomas Copland Muir (August 2019)
Sir Stanley Peart (March 2019)
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