Robert Fettiplace

Robert Fettiplace

Robert Fettiplace (* 1946 ) is a British neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . He is best known for his work on the sensitivity and frequency selectivity of the hair cells in the cochlea , for his measurements and recordings of the hair cell movements, for the determination of important properties of the ion channels of hair cells and for the elucidation of the amplifier function of the outer hair cells in mammals .

Fettiplace graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in medical sciences in 1968, followed by a Ph.D. in biophysics . From 1974 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Denis Baylor on photoreceptors in turtles , first at the University of Colorado Denver , then at Stanford University . From 1977 Fettiplace was back at Cambridge University, where he turned to the physiology of the cochlea in turtles. In 1990 he received a professorship in neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he made further groundbreaking work on the physiology of hearing in turtles and mammals. In 2011 he retired .

In 1990 he was elected to the Royal Society and in 2012 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . For 2018 he was awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience and for 2019 the Passano Award .

Web links

• Robert Fettiplace at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (wisc.edu)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Fettiplace. In: royalsociety.org. Retrieved May 31, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 31, 2018 . 
3. ^ Robert Fettiplace. In: kavliprize.org. May 31, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018 .