John Mollon

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John Mollon
Born
John Dixon Mollon

(1944-09-12) 12 September 1944 (age 79)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Websitevision.psychol.cam.ac.uk/jdmollon/

Professor John Dixon Mollon DSc FRS.[1] (born September 12, 1944)[2] is a British scientist. He is a leading researcher in visual neuroscience. His work has been cited over 15,000 times.[3]

Early life

Education

Having graduated in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Mollon remained at the university for his DPhil. He later received a DSc, also from Oxford.[4]

Career

Mollon was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1976, a position which he held until 1993. He was then a Reader until 1998, at which point he became Professor of Visual Neuroscience.[2]

He became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1996; in 2011 he became a Distinguished Teaching Fellow.[2] He has been the President of the Fellows of the College since 2013.[5] The President "is the elected senior representative of the College's Fellows and deputizes for the Master where necessary"[6]

He has previously served as the Chairman of the Colour Group of Great Britain; the Honorary Secretary of the Experimental Psychology Society; and the President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He has been the President of the International Colour Vision Society since 2011.[2]

He was the principal developer of the Cambridge Colour Test, and supervised the collection of the Cambridge database of natural spectra.[7]

Awards and honors

  • Rank Prize Funds Award for Work on Genetics of Colour Vision 1988[2]
  • Edridge-Green Lecture 1988[2]
  • Champness Lecture 1998[2]
  • Newton Medal 1999[2]
  • Kenneth Craik Award 2000[2]
  • Tillyer Medal 2000[2]
  • Verriest Medal 2005, "bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions to the field of color vision"[8]
  • Lord Crook Medal 2008[2]
  • FRS 1999[1]

References

  1. ^ a b [1] List of Fellows of the Royal Society
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k [2] Authorised entry in Debretts
  3. ^ [3] Google Citations
  4. ^ "Mollon, John — Medicine | Caius College Cambridge". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2014. Gonville and Caius list of the current Master and Fellows
  5. ^ [4] Article from the Gonville and Caius website
  6. ^ [5] List of College Officers at Gonville and Caius
  7. ^ "Cambridge database of natural spectra". University of Cambridge: Vision Lab. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  8. ^ [6] Web page of the University of Durham
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