Richard G. Morris

British neuroscientist

Richard Graham Michael Morris, (born 27 June 1948), is a British neuroscientist. He is known for developing the Morris water navigation task, for proposing the concept of synaptic tagging (along with Julietta U. Frey (formerly published under Uwe Frey), and for his work on the function of the hippocampus.²

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Born 1948.¹

About

He is the director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems (Edinburgh) and the Wolfson Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1994 he has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and since 1997, he has been a fellow of the Royal Society. Morris was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007.

Morris, together with Tim Bliss (Francis Crick Institute) and Graham Collingridge (University of Bristol) were named as winners of the 2016 Brain Prize for their discoveries about the way synaptic connections in the hippocampus are strengthened by stimulation. The process, known as long-term potentiation (LTP), forms the basis of the ability to learn and to remember.

He was elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences in April 2020.

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Companies

University of EdinburghBoard member Jan 1, 1993 to Dec 31, 1998²³

Early life and education

Date not recordedTrinity Hall³
Date not recordedUniversity of Sussex³

Morris received his BA in natural science from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and D.Phil. from the University of Sussex in 1973. He was a lecturer at the University of St Andrews from 1977 to 1986 where he developed the Morris water navigation task. He moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1986.

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Career

Occupation: neuroscientist, university teacher.¹⁴

2007 to 2010Head of department, Wellcome Trust^{4 13}
1998 to 2002Worked at University of Edinburgh^{4 12}
Since 1993Worked at University of Edinburgh^{4 11}
1993 to 1998Director, University of Edinburgh^{4 10}
1987 to 1993Reader, University of Edinburgh^{4 9}
1975 to 1977Worked at British Museum^{4 7}
1975 to 1977Researcher, BBC Radio London^{4 8}
1973 to 1975Worked at Durham University Faculty of Science^{4 6}
Date not recordedWorked at University of Edinburgh^{4 5}

Personal life

CitizenshipUnited Kingdom¹⁵

Awards

2016The Brain Prize^{16 21}
2014EMBO Membership^{16 20}
2013Neuronal Plasticity Prize¹⁶
2006Feldberg Foundation Prize^{16 19}
2005Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^{16 18}
1997Fellow of the Royal Society^{16 17}
Date not recordedCommander of the Order of the British Empire¹⁶

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