26th August 1944 to 13th April 2018
Greame Mitchison, who died of an aggressive brain cancer aged 73, was a Cambridge mathematician and scientist of extraordinarily wide interests; as well as publishing in fields such as neuroscience, physics and molecular biology, he was a gifted pianist and an elegant writer credited by the novelist Ian McEwan with “reverse engineering” a spoof Nobel Prize presentation address for the appendix to his tragicomic novel Solar (2010)
He attended Shene Grammar School and won a county scholarship to study Mathematics at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1965. (extract from a long four column obituary in the Daily Telegraph 13th July 2018)