Peter P. Somogyi#
| Membership Number: | 2655 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford
- 1985 - to date Associate Director, later Co-Director, then Director of the M.R.C. Anatomica Neuropharmacology Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
- 1983 - 1985 Senior Research Fellow, (25 months)Department of Human Physiology, Flinders Medical School, South Australia
- 1980 - 1982 Visiting scientist as above (4 month/year)
- 1978 - 1979 Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, (18 months), Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford
- 1977 - 1978 Departmental Demonstrator, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford. Supervisor: Dr A.D. Smith
- 1976 - 1983 Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1st Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary
- 1975 - 1976 Junior Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1st Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary. Supervisors: Dr. J. Hámori, Professor J. Szentágothai
Fields of Scholarship
- Synapse
- Receptor
- Neurotransmitter
- Cerebral cortex
- Electron microscopy
- Hippocampus
- Brain
- Neuronal network
Honours and Awards
Awards
- 1976 & 1977: First Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Junior Scientists
- 1982 M. Lenhossek Prize of the Association of Hungarian Anatomists and Embryologists
- 1984 Charles Judson Herrick Award of the Association of American Anatomists
- 1990 Honorary Doctorate, Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary
- 1991 Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award of the Cajal Club, American Anatomical Society
- 1995 Yngve Zotterman Prize, Physiological Society, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1996 Professor of Neurobiology, Oxford University
- 1998 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kyoto University
- 2002 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
- 2004 Elected Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford
- 2006 Janos Arany Medal, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Presidential Committee for contribution to Hungarian science from abroad
- 2006 Istvan Bathory Award from the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania for working on restoring Hungarian higher education in Romania
- 2008 Elected Associate, Neuroscience Research Program, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego
- 2009 The Feldberg Prize and Lectures, Feldberg Foundation, London, UK
- 2011 The Brain Prize
- 1990 Moruzzi Lecture, European Neuroscience Association, Stockholm
- 1995 Julian Tobias Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago
- 2001 Jerzy Olszewski Lecture, Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
- 2002 Janos Szentagothai Memorial Lecture, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
- 2003 Wenner-Gren Distinguished Lecturer, Sweden
- 2003 Segerfalk Award Lecture, University of Lund, Sweden
- 2004 Special Plenary Lecture, 16th IFAA Conference, Kyoto, Japan
- 2005 1st Janos Szentagothai Memorial Lecture, University of California, Irvine, USA
- 2006 Quastel Lecure, Otto Loewi Conference, Eilat, Israel
- 2006 Servier Conference Lecture, Neuroscience Research Centre, University of Montreal
- 2008 The IBRO Lecture, Univ. Debrecen, Hungary
- 2008 The 1st Hans Kosterlitz Lecture, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Membership of learned societies:
- 2000 elected Fellow of The Royal Society of London
- 2004 elected a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2006 elected Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, London
- 2006 elected Member of the German National (Leopoldina) Academy
- 2009 elected Member of the Academia Europaea
