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Colin Blakemore

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore

The College is very sad to announce the death of Emeritus Fellow Professor Sir Colin Blakemore FRS who passed away peacefully at Sobell House on Monday 27 June surrounded by…

Knighthood for Colin Blakemore

Professor Colin Blakemore has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to scientific research, policy and outreach. Sir Colin was Waynflete Professor of Physiology from 1979-2007 and is…

Prof Colin Blakemore to give prestigious Ferrier Lecture

Professor Colin Blakemore is awarded the Ferrier Lectureship of the Royal Society. This prestigious lecture is given every three years ‘on a subject related to the advancement of natural knowledge…

Awards for Professor Colin Blakemore

Professor Colin Blakemore has been given the People’s Republic of China Friendship Award, for foreigners ‘who have made outstanding contriutions to China’s economic and social progress’. Further information can be found…

Colin and Suzanne's story

Colin and his wife, Suzanne Colin Doak came up to read Classics at Magdalen in 1973. He is a loyal donor to the College and a member of both the…

Professor Colin Bain

Colin Bain was a Tutorial Fellow in Chemistry at Magdalen from 1991-2005 before moving to Durham University as Professor of Chemistry. In 2019 he took up his current role as…

Martin Bridson elected to the Academia Europaea

Colin Blakemore, Professor Oliver Braddick, Professor Christian Leitmeir, Professor Gero Miesenbock, and Professor Seamus Heaney who was an Honorary Fellow at Magdalen. I am glad to be in such fine…

Leave a gift to Magdalen in your Will

…to do so at no cost to you. Learn more “It is satisfying to [know] that my bequest will help future generations of Magdalen undergraduates (How I envy them!) Colin

Engineering Science

Engineering involves using physics and mathematics knowledge to create and design technology that improves life. Engineering is commonly divided into sub-disciplines, e.g., civil engineering for building structures, biomedical engineering for…

Dr Robert Jacobs

…Cedric; Bain, Colin D.; Gong, Zuguang; Jacobs, Robert M. J.; Shao, Zhengzhong; Terry, Ann E.; Vollrath, Fritz Soft Matter (2012), 8(37), 9705-9712. Stability of hexa(ethylene glycol) SAMs towards the exposure…

A Magdalen Friendship

…last two years of the Second War, and after many letters from a father determined to get his son into his old College, was finally accepted (thanks to Colin Hardie,…

Kirsten's story

Kirsten McKenzie (1993) Request your legacy pack I was born in South Africa but the first seven years of my life were spent across three continents as my parents studied…

Alan and Donna's story

Alan McHughen (1976) and Donna Greschner (1981) are Magdalen Alumni and have been married for over 25 years. They are donors and legators to the College. Alan shares their story…

A Magdalen Friendship

…to Colin Hardie, a figure familiar to many Magdalen men), and came up to Magdalen in April 1947 to read Natural Sciences, Geology. Ex-servicemen were allowed to miss the first…

The Magdalen Papyrus P64: possibly the earliest known fragments of the New Testament (or of a book!)

…in 1901 they were dated for the college by Dr. Hunt to the fourth century. Colin Roberts (1953) re-dated the fragments to the later second century, a date he confirmed…

Professor Laurence Brockliss

…University Press, Oxford, 1992), 288 pp. [with Colin Jones], The Medical World of Early Modern France (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1997), 960 pp. [ed. with David Eastwood], A Union of…