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Andrew Crawford
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Andrew Charles Crawford
12 January 1949 |
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| Thesis | The relationship between spontaneous and evoked release of transmitter substances (1974) |
Andrew Charles Crawford (born 1949) FRS is a British neuroscientist. He is a professor at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College.
Education
Crawford was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys in Birmingham and Downing College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was awarded his PhD in 1974.
Research
Crawford is known for his studies of the mechanism of hearing in vertebrates. In 1976, he and Robert Fettiplace developed a method of recording the electrical responses of hair cells in the isolated cochlea of reptiles. He has also published a series of important papers on neuromuscular transmission in frogs and crabs.
Awards and honours
Crawford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990.
