Life
He was educated at Norwich School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (MA) and King's College London (PhD).
From 1967 to 1969, he was a guest investigator at Rockefeller University. He taught in the biophysics department of King’s College London. In 1989 he taught botany at the University of British Columbia. In 1999, he joined the University of Oxford.
He won the 2007 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London.
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