Daniel Wolpert
Daniel Mark Wolpert FRS FMedSci is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology. He is Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2005, and also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from 2013.
Daniel Wolpert is the son of a renowned SouthAfrican born developmental and evolutionary biologist Lewis Wolpert, and his wife Elizabeth . He was educated at the Hall School and Westminster School. He went on to the University of Cambridge to study mathematics. But after only a year he shifted to medicine, as he experienced that medics were having much more fun than mathematicians. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in medical sciences in 1985. He completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1988, and PhD in physiology in 1992 from the University of Oxford.
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