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Geoffrey Burnstock

British-Australian neuroscientist

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Lived 1929–2020, aged 91Australia
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  • Era
    1929–2020
    Aged 91
  • Awards
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    recognised works
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Updated 2026-06-16

Geoffrey Burnstock was a British-Australian neurobiologist who was President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre of the UCL Medical School. He is best known for coining the term purinergic signalling, which he discovered in the 1970s. He retired in October 2017 at the age of 88.

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