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Denis Noble
Denis Noble, 64, is the British Heart Foundation Burdon Sanderson
Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford and a
Fellow of Balliol College. In the early 1960s, he developed the first ‘ionic’
cell models of cardiac excitation and rhythm generation and has been at
the forefront of computational biology ever since. As the Secretary-General
of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, he has been pivotal
to the initiation of a world-wide effort to describe human physiology by
analytical models – the Physiome Project. In 1998 he was honoured by the
Queen for his services to Science with a CBE. Denis Noble enjoys playing
classical guitar, communicating with people all over the world in their
mother-tongue, and converting the preparation of a meal into a gastro-
nomic celebration.