Avrion Mitchison

Nicholas Avrion "Av" Mitchison FRS (born 1928) is a British zoologist.

Biography

Mitchison was born in 1928, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi (nee Haldane). His uncle was the biologist J.B.S. Haldane and his grandfather the physiologist John Scott Haldane. His elder brothers are the bacteriologist Denis Mitchison and the zoologist Murdoch Mitchison. His children are the cell biologists Tim Mitchison and Hannah Mitchison.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967.

See also: Avrion Mitchison, 1928, 1967, Biography, Biologist, Denis Mitchison, Dick Mitchison, Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society