Laurence Malcolm was the son of New Zealand physiologist Professor John Malcolm. His early career was spent in Otago, London and New York. He joined the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, in 1953 to study evoked potentials in spinal cord and brain. In 1959 he was awarded the Regius Chair in Physiology at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen. He served as Dean of the Science Faculty there in the early 1970s, introducing several notable teaching innovations.

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