Tom Kirkwood
Tom Kirkwood | |
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| Born | 6 July 1951 Durban, South Africa |
| Known for | The disposable soma theory of aging |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Gerontology |
| Workplaces | Newcastle University (UK) |
Thomas Burton Loram Kirkwood (6 July 1951) is a South-African born English biologist who made his contribution to the biology of ageing by proposing the disposable soma theory of aging. He is currently a researcher and Associate Dean for Ageing in Newcastle University and he headed the Institute for Ageing and Health in its school of clinical medical sciences. He is the author of Time of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging (1999), The End of Age: Why Everything About Aging Is Changing (2001), and co-author of Chance, Development, and Aging (2000, together with Caleb E. Finch). In 2001 he gave the annual Reith Lectures.[1]
Kirkwood was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001.[3]
Footnotes
- ↑ The End of Age
- ↑ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 7.
- ↑ "Professor Thomas Kirkwood". The Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 30 June 2026.
External links
- Biography Archived 1 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine at the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing
- Tom Kirkwood publications indexed by Google Scholar