a story lives forever
Register
Sign in
Form submission failed!

Stay signed in

Recover your password?
Register
Form submission failed!

Web of Stories Ltd would like to keep you informed about our products and services.

Please tick here if you would like us to keep you informed about our products and services.

I have read and accepted the Terms & Conditions.

Please note: Your email and any private information provided at registration will not be passed on to other individuals or organisations without your specific approval.

Video URL

You must be registered to use this feature. Sign in or register.

NEXT STORY

A family of biologists

RELATED STORIES

School
Avrion Mitchison Scientist
Comments (0) Please sign in or register to add comments
Most of my childhood I was sent to school in, or near, Reading, at a Quaker school, called Leighton Park School. And you were a boarder there? I was a boarder there. And, so through the war I used to travel back and- to and from- to and fro between Reading and- and Scotland. So how was it in school? Were these good days? Yes, I think so, on the whole. I mean, what do the boys think about schools generally. There were very bad moments and there are very good moments. I- I found people greatly to admire. I think my school hero was Karel Reisz who became a not undistinguished filmmaker and subsequently- and was a refugee from Czechoslovakia. But there were a lot of other- There were very good people. People- Quaker families- whom I much admired. I've kept sort of distantly in touch with, but not closely.

Avrion Mitchison, the British zoologist, is currently Professor Emeritus at University College London and is best known for his work demonstrating the role of lymphocytes in tumour rejection and for the separate and cooperative roles of T- and B-lymphocytes in this and other processes.

Listeners: Martin Raff

Martin Raff is a Canadian-born neurologist and research biologist who has made important contributions to immunology and cell development. He has a special interest in apoptosis, the phenomenon of cell death.

 

 


Listen to Martin Raff at Web of Stories

 

 

Duration: 1 minute, 19 seconds

Date story recorded: June 2004

Date story went live: 24 January 2008