| Administrative History | John Barton Furness (b. 1945), neurobiologist. Educated University of Melbourne (BSc 1966, MSc 1969, PhD 1971). Postdoctoral research, Department of Physiology, Birmingham University 1971 - 1972, Postdoctoral research, A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Cambridge 1972 - 1973, Postdoctoral research, Zoology Department, University of Melbourne 1974, Lecturer, Human Morphology, School of Medicine, Flinders University 1975 - 1976, Senior Lecturer, Flinders University 1977 - 1980, Associate Professor 1981 - 1984, Professor of Anatomy and Histology 1984 - 1990, Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Melbourne 1990 - , Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology 1992 - . Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1989.
Cited from the web page: 'Bright Sparcs Biographical entry' for 'Furness, John Barton (1945 - )', http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002358b.htm (2005). |
| Description | Regarding arrangements for Furness's short trip to Aberdeen in October 1970 and applications to funding bodies (refereed by Kosterlitz). Includes the reference for Furness [for the Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research] Kosterlitz provided Professor W. G. Spector, Department of Phathology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, March 1971. Also includes Kosterlitz's reference for Furness for the 'Horace Le Marquand and Dudley Bigg Research Fellowship' [The Royal Society, London], May 1971. Includes a reference by Kosterlitz about Furness for 'The Life Insurance Medical Research Fund of Australia and New Zealand', July 1971. N.B. ?remains closed under data protection legislation.
Includes a letter, dated 31 May 1971, from Furness, saying that he had 'just received notice that I have been elected to a Beit Fellowship', that he & his wife, Lynne, intend to arrive in Birmingham in December, mentions that Kosterlitz's son [Michael] lives in Birmingham and says 'there will be another member of the family - Lynne and I are expecting the child to arrive in a few weeks time'. |