Physiologist. Former senior lecturer Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow (b Cambridge 1933; q University College London 1958; DSc, MSc, BA), died from colorectal cancer on 13 June 2004.
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Oliver's commitment to neuroscience began during his intercalating BSc course, followed by an MSc, at University College London. After preregistration posts, he returned to physiology. At the Institute of Psychiatry as a Medical Research Council fellow he entered the field of epilepsy research. Appointments followed at Leicester University, at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, and finally in 1975 at the (then) Institute of Physiology in Glasgow. His studies of the neural circuitry responsible for epilepsy contributed significantly to basic epileptology. Oliver published a student text on Human Acid-Base Physiology as well as Human Neurophysiology. He leaves a wife, Marie, and four children.
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