Horace Basil Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society, winner of the Australia Prize, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and the Schwartz Prize of the Society for Neuroscience, died on 5 July 2020 at the age of 98, 10 days after suffering a stroke. As news spread among his former students and collaborators, one phrase recurred again and again in the messages of nostalgic reflection: ‘the end of an era’.
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Blakemore, C. Horace Barlow. Scientist of vision. Nat Neurosci 23, 1177–1178 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-00708-1
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