Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.

Jump to follow-up If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first met him in 1960. He was a huge influence on me and a great friend. I’m publishing this here because the Physiological Society has published only a brief obituary. Bernard with his wife, Andy (Andrina). You can download the following documents. Biography written by one of his daughters, Jane Ginsborg. Bernard’s scientific work, written by Donald H. Jenkinson (who knew him from jis time in Bernard Katz’s Department of Biophysics). A tribute by Randall House, who collaborated with Bernard in Edinburgh. Bernard’s obituary in The Times. I’ll post here my own recollections of Bernard here. Bernard Ginsborg was a lecturer in the Pharmacology department in Edinburgh when I joined that department in 1960, as a PhD student. I recall vividly our first meeting in the communal tea room: smallish in stature, large beard and umbrella, My first reaction was ‘is this chap ever going to stop talking?’. My second reaction followed quickly: this chap has an intellect like nobody I’d encountered before. I’d been invited to Edinburgh by Walter Perry, who had been external examiner for my first degrees in Leeds. In my 3rd year  viva, he’d asked me to explain the difference between confidence limits and fiducial limits. Of course I couldn’t answer, and spent much of my 4th year trying to find out.  I ...
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