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Gerd Walter Christian Sommerhoff OBE (for services to education) was born on 13th February 1915, in Wiesbaden, Germany and died on 28th April 2002, in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. He was a pioneer & lifelong advancer of theoretical neuroscience and a noted humanist.

A great-grandson of the German composers Robert Schumann and his wife Clara, he was living in England at the outset of the Second World War. Being a foreign national, he blamelessly suffered more than two years in an internment camp in Canada before decompressing back in England, where he took up a post teaching science at the Dragon School in Oxford. While there, he laid the foundation for Educational Technology (for which he was honoured by our late queen) using boxes of numbered cards, containing questions, answers, tutorial material, or descriptions of experiments, on a variety of different subjects. He became a Research Fellow in Systems Theory at University College London, and presented science programmes for the BBC from 1960 to 1962, before being recruited to teach technology in Sevenoaks School in 1963 by headmaster Kim Taylor.

Some of his students were Tim Hunt, Alan Macfarlane, John Paul Morrison,

Works

  • 1950: Analytical Biology
  • 1974: Logic of the Living Brain
  • 1990: Life, Brain and Consciousness
  • 1994: An Account of consciousness in physical and functional terms: A target for research in the neurosciences. Integrative Physiology and Behavioral Science. With Karl F. MacDorman.
  • 2001: Understanding Consciousness – its function and brain processes.

References

  1. Richard Brown Baker family papers
  2. Intellectual Autobiography by Richard Sorabji. In Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji, By Ricardo Salles. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-926130-7.
  3. J. Paul Morrison's autobiography. Accessed 16 June 2009.
  4. Brian Scragg, Sevenoaks School, A History (1993)
  5. Autobiography of Nobel Prizewinner Tim Hunt
  6. J. Paul Morrison's autobiography. Accessed 7 July 2016.
  7. Sommerhoff, Gerd; MacDorman, Karl (1994). "An account of consciousness in physical and functional terms: A target for research in the neurosciences". Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science. 29 (2): 151–181. doi:10.1007/BF02691012. PMID 7947330. S2CID 17193883.
  8. Sage Publishers

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