Nigel Unwin


Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin Fellow of the [Royal Society|FRS] is a British scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where he was Head of the Neurobiology Division from 1992 until 2008. He is currently also Emeritus Professor of Cell Biology at the Scripps Research Institute.

Life

Nigel Unwin was born in New Zealand. He was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Metallurgy Cambridge University from 1965–68, and then took a position at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 1968 to 1980. He was Professor of Cell Biology at Stanford University from 1980 to 1987. In 1988 he returned to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, taking also a joint appointment at the Scripps Research Institute.

Works

  • Unwin N, Physica Scripta 90:048002
  • Zuber B, Unwin N, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:10622-10627
  • Unwin N, Fujiyoshi Y, Journal of Molecular Biology 422:617-634
  • O'Brien J, Unwin N, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:1575-1580
  • Unwin N,, Journal of Molecular Biology 346:967-989
  • Miyazawa A, Fujiyoshi Y, Unwin N, Nature 423:949-955
  • Unwin N, Nature 373:37-43
  • Berriman J, Unwin N, Ultramicroscopy 56:241-252
  • Toyoshima C, Unwin N, Nature 336:247-250
  • Toyoshima C, Unwin N, Ultramicroscopy 25:279-292
  • Brisson A, Unwin P N T, Nature 315:474-477
  • Unwin P N T, Milligan R A, Journal of Cell Biology 93:63-75
  • Unwin P N T, Zampighi G, Nature 283:545-549
  • Unwin P N T, Nature 269:118-122
  • Henderson R, Unwin P N T, Nature 257:28-32
  • Unwin P N T, Henderson R, Journal of Molecular Biology 94:425-440
  • Unwin P N T, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B261:95-104

Honors

Unwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983, and of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1987. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society. His awards include the Rosenstiel Award for Basic Medical Research, the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography, and the Royal Society Croonian Lecture and Medal.