People from Newark and Sherwood (district) - Paperback

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: People from Edwinstowe, People from Newark-on-Trent, People from Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Rupert Sheldrake, John Blow, Mary King, Philip Brett, Shane Nicholson, Patrick Huskinson, Phil Joslin, Thomas William Robertson, Esham Pickering, William Warburton, Brendon Fearon, Mark Smalley, William Evelyn Denison, Donald Wolfit, Dusty Hare, John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke, Steve Baines, E. Cobham Brewer, Grosvenor Hodgkinson, Norman Pace, Ted Hufton, Joe Allen, Craig Dudley, Winifred Gales, William Thomas Marshall, Harold Cottam, John Burdett Wittenoom, Louis Lawson, Francis Clater, Mark Monington, Terence Longdon, Cris Tinley, Bill Taylor, Ron Mollatt, Chappell Batchelor, J. J. Johnson, William Streets, William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros. Excerpt: Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English biochemist and plant physiologist. He is known for having proposed an unorthodox account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology. His books and papers stem from his theory of morphic resonance, and cover topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, memory, telepathy, perception and cognition in general. His publications include A New Science of Life (1981), Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (1995), Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (1999), and The Sense of Being Stared At (2003). Sheldrake was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire to a family of Methodists. He attended Worksop College, an Anglican boarding-school, and specialized in science. His father, an amateur naturalist and microscopist, encouraged his son's interest in plants and animals. Sheldrake obtained a scholarship to study Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge. He specialized in biochemistry, graduated with double-first-class honours, and won the University Botany Prize. He won a Frank Knox fellowship to study philosophy and history at Harvard University at around the time Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was published, which he writes informed his view on the extent to which the mechanistic theory of life is just a paradigm. He returned to Cambridge, where he obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry. He became a Fellow at Clare College, director of studies in biochemistry and cell biology, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 1974 to 1985, he worked in Hyderabad, India, where he was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. For a year and a half he lived in the ashram of Bede Griffiths, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life. As a biochemist, Sheldrake researched the role of auxin, a plant hormone, in the differentiation of a plant's vascular system. He ended this line of study