Tributes paid to Oxford neuroscientist Professor Sir Colin Blakemore
Sir Colin Blakemore received death threats for defending medical research on animals. …
Tributes were also paid by Prof AC Grayling, who called him a “brilliant scientist and a lovely, friendly man”, Prof Richard Dawkins, who said he was a “brilliant communicator of science, highly articulate but never intimidating”, and Prof Jim Al-Khalili, who said he was a “true giant of British science”.