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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.
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