Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born FRCP, HonFRCS, FRS was Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
He was born in Germany, the son of the scientist Max Born and his wife Hedwig Ehrenberg. His family left Germany, as his father and maternal grandfather were Jewish. He was educated at the Oberrealschule, Göttingen. After relocating to the UK with his father, he attended The Perse School, Cambridge, Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh. His essay entitled "Six cases illustrating lithiasis of the urinary tract, from the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh" was awarded the Pattison Prize in Clinical Surgery.Career
From 1973 to 1978 he was Sheild Professor of Pharmacology at Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1972, and of the Royal College of Physicians in 1976. He was Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London, 1978–86, and became Research Professor at the in 1989.Family
Born married Ann Plowden-Wardlaw, a medical doctor and Kleinian psychoanalyst, with whom he had 3 children.In 1962, he married Dr Faith Maurice-Williams, with whom he had two more children, one of which being Carey Born, an actress and filmmaker, known for her production company FirstBornFilms. His other daughter is Georgina Born, Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music at the University of Cambridge, and his niece is singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.Publications
In 2006 he co-authored a book with Lorie Karnath "Wohin geht die Sonne, wenn ich schlafe" Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich.Other
Born was a member of the advisory committee to the Anti-Concorde Project.
