Everything about Susan Greenfield totally explained
Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield,
CBE (born 1 October
1950) is a
British scientist,
writer,
broadcaster, and member of the
House of Lords. Greenfield's specialty is the
physiology of the
brain, and has worked to research and bring attention to
Parkinson's disease and
Alzheimer's disease.
Greenfield is
Professor of
Synaptic Pharmacology at
Lincoln College, Oxford, and Director of the
Royal Institution. On
February 1,
2006, she was installed as Chancellor of
Heriot-Watt University in
Edinburgh.
Early life
Baroness Greenfield was born in the west
London borough of
Hammersmith to Doris (Thorp) and Myer Reginald Greenfield, a machine operator, whose parents were
Austrian and
Russian. Greenfield attended the
Godolphin and Latymer School, and was the first member of her family to go on to university, at
St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Career
Greenfield's research is focused on brain physiology, particularly the etiology of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, but she's best known as a populariser of science. Greenfield has written several popular-science books about the brain and consciousness, and regularly gives public lectures, and appears on radio and television. In
1994, she was invited to be the first woman to give the
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture, then sponsored by the
BBC.
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