Professor John Dixon Mollon DSc FRS.[1] (born September 12, 1944)[2] is a British scientist. He is a leading researcher in visual neuroscience. His work has been cited over 15,000 times.[3]
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| Born | John Dixon Mollon 12 September 1944 |
| Nationality | British |
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Early life
Education
Having graduated in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Mollon remained at the university for his DPhil. He later received a DSc, also from Oxford.[4]
Career
Mollon was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1976, a position which he held until 1993. He was then a Reader until 1998, at which point he became Professor of Visual Neuroscience.[2]
He became a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1996; in 2011 he became a Distinguished Teaching Fellow.[2] He has been the President of the Fellows of the College since 2013.[5] The President "is the elected senior representative of the College's Fellows and deputizes for the Master where necessary"[6]
He has previously served as the Chairman of the Colour Group of Great Britain; the Honorary Secretary of the Experimental Psychology Society; and the President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. He has been the President of the International Colour Vision Society since 2011.[2]
He was the principal developer of the Cambridge Colour Test, and supervised the collection of the Cambridge database of natural spectra.[7]
Awards and honors
- Rank Prize Funds Award for Work on Genetics of Colour Vision 1988[2]
- Edridge-Green Lecture 1988[2]
- Champness Lecture 1998[2]
- Newton Medal 1999[2]
- Kenneth Craik Award 2000[2]
- Tillyer Medal 2000[2]
- Verriest Medal 2005, "bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions to the field of color vision"[8]
- Lord Crook Medal 2008[2]
- FRS 1999[1]