Ben Delisle Burns, BA(Cantab), MRCS, LRCP,

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(1915 - 2001)
Graduated from Cambridge University in 1915, and from University College Hospital Medical School in 1939. After WWII did operational research in North Africa, and later joined Sir G.Lindor Brown (himself Post-Doc with Charles S. Sherrington) at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, doing research on neuromuscular transmission. He joined McGill Physiology Dept. in 1950. In 1966 he returned to NIMR in UK to succeed W. Feldberg as Head of its Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, and later (1976) became director of a research group at the University of Bristol. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) in 1966. He died in September 2001