Geoffrey Burnstock
1929
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2020
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Australia
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University College London, King's College London, University of Melbourne, Greenford High School
occupation: neuroscientist, editor-in-chief, biomedical scientist, biologist, neurologist
Geoffrey Burnstock (10 May 1929 – 2 June 2020) was a neurobiologist and President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre of the UCL Medical School. He is best known for coining the term purinergic signalling, which he discovered in the 1970s. He retired in October 2017 at the age of 88. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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