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96 OBITUARIES slightly unconventional and strong-willed members who went their own ways in life, and Ben was to be no exception. But whereas Ben’s ancestors had used their brains in the service of the Catholic Church, the Empire and the British Communist Party, Ben was interested in how the brain worked. He studied Physics and Chemistry at the University ofTübingen in Germany for a year before he came to King’s to read Natural Sciences. After the completion of his BA, Ben continued to study in order to qualify in medicine. He moved on to University College Hospital in London from where he graduated in 1939. The SecondWorldWar interrupted Ben’s career to some extent. He was drafted to join a group conducting operational research, partly in North Africa, under the leadership of Professor Solly (later Lord) Zuckerman. The studies were secret and their aim was to understand the damage that projectiles could cause. Ben did not enjoy this work, and after the war returned to Britain to join a group under Sir Lindor Brown at the National Institute for Medical Research in London that worked on the investigation of neuromuscular transmissions. Ben was now properly initiated into the field of neuroscience to which he would dedicate his life. In 1950 Ben moved to Canada where he joined the Physiology Department at McGill University in Montreal. He stayed there for 16 years, studying how the brain could learn, memorise and keep its attention. He wrote his first book, The Mammalian Cerebral Cortex (1958), on how the cortical neurons process information. In order to study these processes more carefully, Ben tried to build machines to map electronically and analyse how neurons were interacting with each other, and to present other experimental neuroelectric data. This was a pioneering and laborious undertaking, constructing something that only a few decades later could be done with little more than a personal computer. At McGill Ben was a well-liked faculty member, renowned for his inspiring teaching and way of supervising his graduate students. He became the Chairman of the Physiology Department before he returned to Britain in 1966. It was to the National Institute for Medical Research in London that Ben returned, this time as the Head of the Division of Physiology and
Pharmacology. He was to stay until 1976 and continued during this time to research such subjects as how the brain can single out information from a background of random variability, or “noise”. Ben’s second book, The Uncertain Nervous System (1968), contained this research but also more general reflections on the interdisciplinary nature of neurophysiology. That same year also saw Ben’s election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. Later in life Ben became more and more interested in the changes in cortical neuronal activity during varying stages of alertness.This research was carried out at the Department of Anatomy at Bristol University and then at Newcastle University, together with Ben’s third wife, the neuroscientist Dr Alison Webb. Ben had been married previously, firstly to Angela Ricardo (1938) and then Monika Kasputis (1954), marriages that had produced five children. Ben’s last years in life were marred by a debilitating spinal injury that restricted his physical movements. His brain was unaffected, although he could no longer carry out research. By this time, however, Ben had written two books and over 100 academic articles that had made a huge contribution to his discipline. Ben died on 6 September 2001 in Hexham, Northumberland. KENNETH DE KAY BURY (1934), son of E B B (1909), grandson of J B B (1903) and uncle of K M B (1965) and P J B (1968), was born in London on 13 April 1916. He attended Westminster School before coming up to King’s to read History and Moral Sciences. From King’s Kenneth became a local government official and served with the Royal Artillery during the war. His greatest interest was in the English poets of the interwar years, whose works he collected. In the late 1950s Kenneth suffered a severe mental breakdown, from which he never completely recovered. He died on 23 July 2004. MICHAEL CALDICOTT (1944), brother of D C (1946), followed the Royal Engineers Short Course before serving for three years in Germany. He was 97 OBITUARIES
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