Ian Michael Glynn FRS FRCP (born 3 June 1928) is a British

Great Britain

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 biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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He was Professor of Physiology, University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, 1986–95, now Professor Emeritus. He has been a Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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 since 1955 (Vice-Master, 1980–86).

Education: City of London School

City of London School

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; Trinity College, Cambridge; University College, London Hospital.

His work on the 'sodium pump' led to his election to the Royal Society and to Honorary Foreign Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is the author of An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind (2003) and Elegance in Science: The beauty of simplicity (2010).