Professor Philip Bradley (1919–2009)

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| | || Professor Philip Bradley, who died on 27 August 2009, at the age of 90, rose from humble beginnings to become one of the doyens of the new scientific discipline of Neuropsychopharmacology. He was the youngest of the six children of a struggling Bristol printer. With Europe hovering on the brink of war, he managed to obtain a rare educational grant to study Zoology and Chemistry at Bristol University, which would preserve him from the attentions of the Armed Forces Recruiting Board for 4 years, until he qualified as a schoolteacher. And then there was a hiccup! Because he failed one of his Chemistry exams, he was no longer exempt from military service. Although his knowledge of electronics at that time was vanishingly small, the British Army, for its own arcane reasons, ordered him to teach it to recruits! He managed to stay two steps ahead of his students and, after 6 years of service, had amassed considerable …