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Tom Kirkwood

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British biologist

United Kingdom ScientistsBorn 1951 · age 75

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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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2017The Paton Lecture

2011Longevity Prize

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Linda PartridgeAlso won Longevity Prize

Geoffrey BurnstockAlso won The Paton Lecture

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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. 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.

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