Stanley Salmons (born 1939) was born in Lower Clapton, east London, and was educated at St. Marylebone Grammar School. Awarded a Royal Scholarship, he attended Imperial College London, from which he graduated in Physics and went on to gain a D.I.C. in Electronics and Communications. A long-standing interest in the life sciences led him to a Masters Degree in Physiology at University College London, supported by a Nuffield Foundation Bursary. He was then appointed to a Research Fellowship in the Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham, where he subsequently held a Stothert Research Fellowship of the Royal Society...