Susan Greenfield Born: 1-Oct-1950 Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female Religion: Agnostic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Scientist, TV Personality Nationality: England Executive summary: Brain Story British neuroscientist Susan Greenfield has studied cognition, memory, perception, and the effects of Alzheimer's disease. She has writing best-sellers explaining science to lay audiences, and hosted Brain Story, a science series on the BBC. Appointed to the House of Lords by Prime Minister Tony Blair, she is a staunch opponent of marijuana decriminalization, since, she says, she has seen "the effects of so-called soft drugs on the brain". Father: Myer Reginald Greenfield (electrician) Mother: Doris Thorp Greenfield (dancer) Husband: Peter Atkins (chemist, m. 1991, div. 2003, no children)
High School: Godolphin & Latymer School, London, England University: PhD, Oxford University Teacher: Pharmacology, Oxford University (1985-96) Professor: Medicine, Gresham College (1995-98) Professor: Pharmacology, Oxford University (1996-) Administrator: Chancellor, Heriot-Watt University (2006-)
Commander of the British Empire 2000 Life Peerage 2001 as Baroness Greenfield of Otmoor Faraday Prize 1998 French Legion of Honor 2003 Squibb Research Director (1988-95)
Royal Institution of Great Britain Director (1998-) Royal College of Physicians UK Member of Parliament House of Lords (2001-) Austrian Ancestry (paternal)
Jewish Ancestry
Russian Ancestry (paternal)
Risk Factors: Marijuana
Official Website: http://www.pharm.ox.ac.uk/academics/greenfield
Author of books:
Mindwaves: Thoughts on Intelligence, Identity, and Consciousness (1987, with Colin Blakemore) Journey to the Centers of the Mind: Toward a Science of Consciousness (1995) The Human Brain: A Guided Tour (1997) How We Work: Understanding the Human Body and Mind (1997, with Philip Whitfield) The Private Life of the Brain (2000) Brain Story (2000, TV series tie-in) Tomorrow's People (2003) Inside the Body (2006)
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