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Tom Kirkwood
British biologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Born 1951 · age 75
Thomas Burton Loram Kirkwood is a South-African born English biologist who made his contribution to the biology of ageing by proposing the disposable soma theory of aging.
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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. In 2001 he gave the annual Reith Lectures.
