Raymond Michael Gaze | |
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| Born | 22 June 1927 |
| Died | 11 September 2012 (aged 85) |
| Awards | Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture (1977) |
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| Fields | Neuroscience, Electrophysiology |
Raymond Michael ‘Mike’ Gaze FRS[1] (22 June 1927—11 September 2012) was a British neuroscientist.
He was the first person to use electrophysiological recording techniques to examine the formation, development and regeneration of the nervous system. He worked mainly on the visual system of frogs and fish. He established that nerve connexions are plastic, that is that during normal development retinal fibres continually change the connexions they make with the brain.
Gaze was deputy director of The National Institute for Medical Research (the forerunner to the Francis Crick Institute) from 1977 to 1983. In 1986 he was made an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he had served within the physiology department at different stages of his career. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1964, of the Royal Society (London) in 1972.
He served as Editor for the journal Development from 1976 to 1988.[2]
- ^ Hope, Ronald Anthony (2023). "Raymond Michael Gaze. 22 June 1927—11 September 2012". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 74: 185–209. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2022.0026. S2CID 253524020.
- ^ The Node (The Company of Biologists) (2012). "Mike Gaze (1925-2012)".