Chris Bell took zoology at Melbourne University where he was one of Geoffrey Burnstock’s first PhD students. As a National Heart Foundation Overseas Research Fellow, he worked in the UK with Marthe Vogt at Babraham and with John Vane at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, studying the catecholaminergic innervation of peripheral tissues. Awarded the Sandoz Prize in 1972, Chris returned to the Department of Physiology in Melbourne, gaining his DSc (1980) and building an international reputation in vascular physiology. In 1995, he was appointed to the Chair in Physiology in Trinity College Dublin. He created new courses there in exercise physiology and neuroscience. He was editor of several international journals and wrote a number of popular books on physiology, for schoolchildren and others.

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