Awards & Winners

Joshua Harold Burn

Date of Birth 1892
Place of Birth Barnard Castle
(Teesdale)
Nationality
Joshua Harold Burn FRS was an English pharmacologist and Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University. Burn worked on the internal control of the body by the autonomic nervous system, carrying out seminal work on the release of noradrenaline from these nerves and introducing the controversial Burn-Rand hypothesis. The Nobel Laureate John Vane claimed "If anyone can be said to have moulded the subject of pharmacology around the world, it is he".

Awards by Joshua Harold Burn

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1960


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of pharmacology, cardiac-physiology and vaso-neurology, and especially for his achievements in elucidating the role of various drugs, noradrenaline and the sympathetic nervous system in the excitation and control of cardio-vascular disease.)