The Society is greatly saddened to hear of the death of Honorary Member John Nicholls. Born in London, he attended Charing Cross Hospital Medical School before completing a PhD in the Biophysics Department at UCL in 1955.  He held positions in Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Stanford, before moving to Basel in 1983 and finally to SISSA in Trieste in 1998. Nicholls’s work touched many areas of neurobiology, ideas he collected in the hugely influential textbook ‘From Neuron to Brain’, (originally coauthored in 1976 with Kuffler and Martin, but now in its 5th edition). For many years Nicholls, an arresting lecturer,  organised an IBRO neuroscience course in many developing countries, usually in quite primitive conditions but responsible for inspiring many researchers, now often internationally prominent. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988.