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Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE
Professor of Physic
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE high opinion a human, writer, journalist, and associate of interpretation House look upon Lords. Academic Greenfield was the Moneyman Professor chivalrous Physic between...
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Baroness Susan Greenfield: Unravelling the Power of the Human Mind
By Mirela Sula
Stepping into the House of Commons, I had the pleasure to meet world-renowned scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield. Together we unravelled the power of the human mind, from consciousness, mental health, social media to the metaverse.
Everyone’s greater mission should be to try and find something they genuinely love doing, irrespective of how much money they’re paid.
You have dedicated your life to raising awareness for Alzheimer and Parkinson’s, as well as educating people about the brain’s function. Where did this interest stem from?
It actually started very unconventionally – I hated science at school, it was all about the amoeba splitting into two and that seemed very unexciting. You would draw one circle, then you drew an egg timer, and then two circles, and it did not excite me at all. Similarly, chemistry was about distilling water and no one told me why distilling water was relevant. Science did not excite me – what excited me was literature, history and why people started wars so I dedicated my time to specialising in this area. I gave up Science happily when I was 16 and for my advanced education, choosing instead to study Latin, Gree
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Greenfield, Susan 1950–
(Susan Adele Greenfield)
PERSONAL: Born October 1, 1950, in England; daughter of Reginald Myer Greenfield (an electrician) and Doris Margaret Winifred (a former chorus girl); married Peter William Atkins (an educator), 1991 (marriage ended 2005). Education: St. Hilda's College, Oxford, M.A., D.Phil. Hobbies and other interests: Aerobics, travel.
ADDRESSES: Home—Oxford, England. Office—University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology, Mansfield Rd., Oxford OX1 3QT, England. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: University of Oxford, Oxford, England, Green College, junior research fellow, 1981–84, Lincoln College, tutorial fellow in medicine, 1985–, university lecturer in synaptic pharmacology, 1985–, professor of pharmacology, 1996–; Squibb Projects, deputy director, 1988–95; Gresham College, London, London, England, Gresham chair of physics, 1995–98; Royal Institute of Great Britain, director of Fullerian professor of physiology, 1998–; Institute of La Jolla, La Jolla, CA, visiting fellow in neurosciences, 1995; Queen's University, Belfast, distinguished visiting scholar, 1996; Royal Institute Christmas lecturer, 1994 (first woman to present series); Independent on Sunday, London, columnist, 1996–98; appeared on television series