Richard G. Morris

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Richard Graham Michael Morris (* 1948 ) is a British neuroscientist .

He is known for developing the Morris Water Maze, one of the most common rodent learning tasks of today , and for his work on the function of the hippocampus .

Morris is currently Director of the Center for Cognitive and Neural Systems (CCNS) in Edinburgh and the Wolfson Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh .

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1997, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2005, a member of the Royal Norwegian Scientific Society since 2006 , the EMBO since 2014 and the National since 2020 Academy of Sciences . Morris was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007. For 2013 he was awarded the Neuronal Plasticity Prize .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Prof Richard Morris, CBE, FRS . Debrett's. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  2. ^ Morris, RGM: Spatial localization does not require the presence of local cues . In: Learning and Motivation . 2, No. 2, May 1981, pp. 239-260. doi : 10.1016 / 0023-9690 (81) 90020-5 .
  3. ↑ Per Andersen, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss, John O'Keefe (Eds.): The Hippocampus Book . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-510027-3 .
  4. ^ People / Administration . Center for Cognitive and Neural Systems. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  5. ^ People / Academic Staff - Prof. Richard Morris, CBE, FRS . Center for Cognitive and Neural Systems. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  6. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society . Royal Society. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  7. ↑ EMBO enlarges its membership for 50th anniversary. Press release from May 8, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de)

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personal data
SURNAME Morris, Richard G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morris, Richard Graham Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948