Murray Harper was a physiologist of major international and historical significance with a lifelong interest in cerebral blood flow. A Glasgow medical graduate, he led a research team there at the Wellcome Surgical Institute to investigate brain blood flow and cardiopulmonary bypass, ultimately becoming Professor of Surgical Physiology. A champion of interdisciplinary research, basic and clinical, he founded the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism and was the first editor of its journal.

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