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| Leslie IversenCBE FRS MAE | |
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| Born | Leslie Lars Iversen (1937-10-31)31 October 1937 Exeter, England |
| Died | 30 July 2020(2020-07-30) (aged 82) |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Spouse |
Susan Iversen (m. 1961) |
| Awards | Ferrier Lecture |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pharmacology |
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Leslie Lars Iversen CBE FRS MAE (31 October 1937 – 30 July 2020), was a British pharmacologist, known for his work on the neurochemistry of neurotransmission.
Early life
Of Norwegian descent, Iversen attended Hele's School, Exeter, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in natural sciences and a PhD in pharmacology.
Career and research
A Fellow of Trinity College from 1964 to 1984, Iversen was also Locke Research Fellow of the Royal Society at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1971. From 1971 to 1982, he was Director of the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge. Between 1982 and 1995 he worked as Director of the Merck, Sharp & Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre. In 1995 he became Visiting Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford.
In 2000, Iversen published the book The Science of Marijuana by Oxford University Press, Inc. In 2010 he was accused of plagiarism. Consequently one of his books now credits the original author of the plagiarized work.
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980 and gave the Society's Ferrier Lecture in 1983. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours, "for services to pharmacology".
He died on 30 July 2020, survived by his wife of nearly 60 years, Susan Iversen.
References
- Leslie Iversen on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
- Express & Echo, 12 June 1956, p. 6
- Express & Echo, 20 August 1956, p, 3
- See https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2023.0008
- ^ "IVERSEN, Prof. Leslie Lars". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2025 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Tilli Tansey; Pippa Catterall; Sonia V Willhoft; Daphne Christie; Lois Reynolds, eds. (1997). Technology Transfer in Britain: The Case of Monoclonal Antibodies; Self and Non-Self: A History of Autoimmunity; Endogenous Opiates; The Committee on Safety of Drugs. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-1-869835-79-8. OL 9320034M. Wikidata Q29581528.
- The science of marijuana, LL Iversen. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- "Plagiarism by British Drug Tsar". 11 November 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- Robbins, Trevor W. (2023). "Leslie Lars Iversen. 31 October 1937—30 July 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 75: 263–278. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2023.0008. S2CID 258312871.
- "Leslie Iversen". Royal Society.
- "Ferrier Medal and Lecture". Royal Society. 30 November 2023.
- "No. 60367". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 28 December 2012. p. 8.
- "In Memory of Leslie Iversen". British Neuroscience Association. 7 August 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
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