Paul Fatt

Paul Fatt
FRS
Born(1924-01-13)13 January 1924
Died28 September 2014(2014-09-28) (aged 90)
Spouses
  • Ione Copplestone
  • Gertrude Falk
  • Carla Wartenberg
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London
ThesisNeuro-muscular transmission (1950)

Paul Fatt FRS (13 January 1924 – 28 September 2014) was a British neuroscientist, who was a professor at University College London.[1] With Bernard Katz, he developed the "quantal hypothesis" for neurotransmitters.[2][3][4]

Personal life

Paul married three times: Ione Copplestone (1926-2016) with whom he had three children: Michael (1954), Laura (1955), Harriet (1957); Gertrude Falk (1926–2008) with whom he had one child, Ilsa;[5] and Carla Wartenberg fom 1985 till his death.

References

  1. ^ Ashmore, Jonathan (2013). "An interview with Paul Fatt" (PDF). physoc.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  2. ^ "Sir Bernard Katz Award". Biophysical Society.
  3. ^ Cull-Candy, Stuart; Ashmore, Jonathan (2014). "Paul Fatt 1924–2014". Nature Neuroscience. 17 (12): 1634. doi:10.1038/nn.3873. ISSN 1546-1726. PMID 25413090.
  4. ^ Anon (2014). "Paul Fatt obituary 1924-2014" (PDF). discovery.ucl.ac.uk. [dead link‍]
  5. ^ Joffe, Lawrence (1 April 2008). "Gertrude Falk". The Guardian.

Jonathan F. Ashmore, PAUL FATT 13 January 1924 — 28 September 2014, in: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2016.0005