John Mollon

Professor John Dixon Mollon DSc FRS.^[1] (born 12 September 1944^[2]) is a British scientist. He is a leading researcher in visual neuroscience. His work has been cited over 9000 times^[3]

Education

Having graduated in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, he 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.

Awards and Honors

• Rank Prize Funds Award for Work on Genetics of Colour Vision 1988^[2]
• Edridge-Green lectr 1988^[2]
• Champness lectr 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"^[7]
• Lord Crook Medal 2008^[2]
• FRS 1999^[1]

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